Virtual Hypertension Management Pilot

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Digital Health; Electronic Health Record

Treatments: Other: Connected-device; Other: Usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03291535

12397

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators are examining the quality improvement impact of providing patients with a an electronic health record-connected blood pressure cuff. Investigators will give half of patients already eligible for hypertension management within a clinical pharmacist panel, the ability to upload their blood pressure data into Stanford's electronic health record.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hypertension as defined by clinical pharmacist usual care panel (2 or more readings of blood pressure >140/90)

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Chronic kidney disease III or IV
• Systolic heart failure with ejection fraction <35%
• Current use of 3 or more anti-hypertension drugs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This arm will consist of the usual care of management of hypertension by a clinical pharmacist.

Treatment:

Other: Usual care

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm will consistent of usual care plus the addition of a blood pressure cuff that will allow patients to upload data to the electronic health record via a secure portal.

Treatment:

Other: Connected-device