Using Bluetooth Home Blood Pressure Monitors With Pharmacist Interventions

University of South Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Device: Devices; Behavioral: Surveys; Behavioral: Telehealth Follow-up Visits

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05606783

Pro00036888

Details and patient eligibility

About

Family Medicine patients with uncontrolled hypertension will be given a Bluetooth enabled home blood pressure machine to monitor their blood pressure every day for 6 weeks. The blood pressure results will be sent automatically to the patient's electronic medical record via applications on their iPhone. Study pharmacists will follow-up with the patients once per week via a telehealth appointment using the app VSee, where the blood pressure results will be reviewed. The pharmacists will also counsel the patients on lifestyle modifications in order to improve blood pressure.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• must be at least 18 years old
• have a smartphone compatible with the mobile intervention (iPhone)
• have been previously diagnosed with hypertension
• have uncontrolled hypertension (SBP > 130 mmHg and/or DBP > 80 mmHg)
• be under the care of a primary care physician in the Family Medicine Department of the USF Morsani Center for Advanced Care
• have had at least one prescription filled at Pharmacy Plus within the last six months
• speaks English fluently

Exclusion criteria

• already under the care of a clinical pharmacist in the Family Medicine department
• pregnant
• have a serious existing medical condition(s) that may affect their ability to self-monitor their blood pressure (for example, stroke, dementia)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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9 participants in 1 patient group

Home blood pressure monitoring

Experimental group

Description:

* Smart Phones with Apple Health Software will be used to monitor blood pressure once a day, and results will be sent automatically to the patients EHR (Epic) * The Omron 10 Series Wireless Upper Arm Blood Pressure Device will be given to the patient to monitor blood pressure at home daily * Patients will be scheduled for a one-hour in-person appointment for the initial study visit where informed consent will be obtained, and for the final study visit

Treatment:

Device: Devices

Behavioral: Surveys

Behavioral: Telehealth Follow-up Visits