Approaches to Reduce Clinical Inertia in Hypertension in the Dominican Republic (ARCH DR)
Approaches to Reduce Clinical Inertia in Hypertension Management in Primary Care in the Dominican Republic
調査の概要
詳細な説明
Proper control of elevated blood pressure (BP) is complex due to the large number of factors associated with therapy such as patient lifestyle, therapeutic adherence and access to health care, especially in low and middle income countries. More recently another obstacle has been described; clinical inertia, defined as the failure of clinicians to initiate or intensify antihypertensive therapy despite elevated BP levels not at goal. Suboptimal therapy is the most clinically important modifiable factor known to be associated with poor BP control. Reducing clinical inertia is of significant relevance, since a proper control of hypertension can reduce mortality from coronary heart disease and mortality from cerebrovascular disease.
Our hypothesis is that a multimodality strategy that includes an on-line course on updated guidelines on hypertension management and feedback performance reports is effective to reduce clinical inertia in the management of hypertension in rural primary care clinics in the Dominican Republic.
To test this hypothesis, this study will enroll eight clinics in rural neighborhoods of the Peravia province. These are government-funded small clinics that provide primary care and preventive services and are staffed with 2-3 primary care physicians. Eight clinics will be randomized at a 1:1 ratio into a control group and and intervention group. We anticipate over 500 patients from these clinics will be included.
The primary care physicians in the intervention group will be provided with an on-line course and weekly performance feedback reports, based on the new American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) and European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH) hypertension guidelines. The performance feedback reports will include percent of patients with uncontrolled hypertension and among this group percent of visits where intensification in anti-hypertensive therapy was made. It will also include a comparative assessment of the performance of the physicians compared to their colleagues. The control group will continue to follow the current usual care without intervention. The total intervention and follow-up time will be 16 weeks.
研究の種類
段階
- 適用できない
連絡先と場所
研究場所
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Santo Domingo、ドミニカ共和国
- Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
受講資格のある性別
説明
Inclusion Criteria for Clinics:
- Primary care clinics in rural areas of the Peravia province with primary care physicians (general practitioners, family medicine, internists).
Inclusion Criteria for Patients:
- Adult patients over age 18 who receive primary care at the participating clinics with history of hypertension or with blood pressure >130/80 mmHg during the visit
Exclusion Criteria for patients:
- Pregnant patients
- Patients under age 18
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか？
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的：処理
- 割り当て：ランダム化
- 介入モデル：並列代入
- マスキング：なし（オープンラベル）
武器と介入
参加者グループ / アーム |
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介入なし：Control group
The clinicians in the control group will continue usual care without intervention.
They will not receive the online course or performance feedback reports.
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アクティブコンパレータ：Intervention group
The primary care physicians will receive access to an online course on hypertension management based on the ACC/AHA and ESC guidelines.
They will also receive feedback reports on their performance on hypertension management for 16 weeks.
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この研究は何を測定していますか？
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Proportion of visits with clinical inertia
時間枠：16 weeks
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Clinical inertia will be designated to visits where BP was uncontrolled (BP ≥140/90 or ≥130/80 in patients with comorbidities) where no intensification of therapy was done or no justification for deferring intensification was documented.
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16 weeks
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二次結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Percentage of patients on guideline concordant hypertension management
時間枠：16 weeks
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When clinical action was taken during the visit, the appropriateness of the therapy will be evaluated according to the most recent AHA/ACC and ESC/ESH hypertension recommendations.
Initial choice of antihypertensive drug therapy will be deemed appropriate if it is a thiazide diuretic, calcium channel blocker, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB).
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16 weeks
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Percentage of clinic visits with controlled blood pressure
時間枠：16 weeks
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The percentage of patients with controlled blood pressure (<140/90 and <130/80 with comorbidities) will be compared between intervention and control group/
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16 weeks
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Percentage of clinic visits where counseling on lifestyle modifications was provided
時間枠：16 weeks
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Lifestyle modification counseling include: changes on diet, decrease salt intake, physical activity, alcohol intake and smoking cessation.
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16 weeks
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研究開始 (実際)
一次修了 (実際)
研究の完了 (実際)
試験登録日
最初に提出
QC基準を満たした最初の提出物
最初の投稿 (実際)
学習記録の更新
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QC基準を満たした最後の更新が送信されました
最終確認日
詳しくは
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