Trial of a Nurse Led Hypertension Clinic in Inner City General Practices

St George's, University of London

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Other: Nurse-led blood pressure clinic

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01101737

General Nursing Council 2007

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will do a trial in two general practices to see if the introduction of a blood pressure clinic staffed by a specialist nurse supported by visiting consultant improves blood pressure control compared to usual care.

Enrollment: 353 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with last recorded blood pressure greater or equal to the British Hypertension Society audit standard

Exclusion criteria

• Secondary hypertension
• Housebound
• Non-English speaking
• Another major illness likely to dominate pattern of care e.g. advanced cancer, dementia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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353 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients not invited to the nurse-led clinic will continue with usual GP care

Nurse-led blood pressure clinic

Experimental group

Description:

Patients randomly allocated to the intervention will be invited to a specialist nurse-led blood pressure clinic.

Treatment:

Other: Nurse-led blood pressure clinic