An interventional study of Nurse-led blood pressure clinic in Hypertension, sponsored by St George's, University of London. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2010-04-12.
Sponsored by St George's, University of London · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
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.
6,689 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypertension; 965 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 353 is above the median of 90 across 4,995 interventional studies indexed under Hypertension.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Patients not invited to the nurse-led clinic will continue with usual GP care
Patients randomly allocated to the intervention will be invited to a specialist nurse-led blood pressure clinic.
Other: Nurse-led blood pressure clinic
Blood pressure will be measured according to protocol.For patients with blood pressure above optimal targets, treatment changes will be discussed with the patient, a visiting consultant physician and the patient's GP. If they agree, the GP will intensify anti-hypertensive treatment with monthly follow up by the specialist nurse until BP targets are achieved.
Change in systolic blood pressure
This will be assessed using two audits of practice records where blood pressure was measured and recorded independently by practice staff
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients in each group with final blood pressure below the British Hypertension Society optimal target
Time frame: 6 months after recruitment
This study is completed, as verified in Apr 2010. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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