Overview
The overall goal of this study is to identify and rigorously evaluate strategies for implementing and sustaining team-based home blood pressure monitoring (TB-HBPM) within primary care.
The TB-HBPM intervention is a multifaceted program involving patient transmission of blood readings to EHR and clinical decision support. Implementation strategies include group-based education on hypertension measurement, target blood pressure goals, drug and lifestyle management, referral to community resources, and team training designed to optimize the coordination of hypertension care, and monthly audit and feedback reports to teams and clinicians.
Hypertension control rates are suboptimal in many primary care practices with persistent racial disparities in control. Team-based home blood pressure monitoring (TB-HPBM) involving patient transmission of their home blood pressure readings in real-time to their clinical team has been shown to improve blood pressure control. There is an urgent need to implement TB-HBPM into practice. The overall objective of this research is to assess implementation strategies that mitigate barriers and leverage facilitators to TB-HBHM on hypertension control and disparities between Black and White patients. The study team and investigators will use mixed methods to assess the process and generate knowledge to facilitate broader uptake of TB-HBPM.
Description
Aim 2: Deploy theorized implementation strategies using a type-2 hybrid stepped-wedge randomized cluster trial The department of family medicine will roll out the clinical intervention (TBHBPM).
To improve rigor in evaluation, the study biostatistician will use computer-generated numbers to randomly assign each of the eight suites to when they will begin the intervention during one of three wedges (Figure 1). The study team and investigators will randomize two suites in the first wedge and three each to the second and third wedge.
Aim 3: Assess the impact of implementation strategies using specific metrics based on RE-AIM
Aim 4: Test theoretical assumptions underlying the implementation strategies
Eligibility
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Clinicians and Staff Eligibility Criteria Practice employees (practice leaders,
administrators, clinicians, or staff) that work with hypertensive patients during the study
period (scheduling appointments, coordinating care, measuring blood pressure, responding to
questions, and/or treating their blood pressure)
Patient Inclusion Criteria
- Current HFM patient 18-85 years of age with hypertension diagnosis
- Diagnosis of hypertension based on ICD-10 codes of I10-I14
- at least one HFM health visit and hypertension diagnosis beginning no later than
7/1/2021.
Patient Exclusion Criteria
- Not current patient in the participating practices
- Diagnosis of dementia, end-stage renal disease, and/or in hospice
- Currently pregnant