Recruiting

High Blood Pressure StrategyHigh Blood Pressure Strategy (HBPS)

Sponsor:

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Code:

NCT00446914

Conditions

Hypertension

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Systems Change (High Blood Pressure Strategy)

Study Details

Brief summary:

This program developed by the HSFO aims at helping people of Ontario and their primary healthcare providers better diagnose, manage and control high blood pressure. The High Blood Pressure Strategy brings together healthcare providers and patients to improve the way in which family doctors, nurse practitioners and pharmacists work together and with patients towards improved control of high blood pressure through the use of evidence-informed tools combined with local systems change.

Conditions

Hypertension

Study ID

NCT00446914

Start date

Jan, 2007

Status verified date

Aug, 2008

Completion date

Jan, 2010

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan, 2010

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Adults aged 18 years or older
History of elevated BP reading or primary hypertension diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria:

Major mental health illness of cognitive impairment
Language barrier (unable to speak or read English)
Lives in a long-term care home
Secondary hypertension

Study Design

Enrollment

5000 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Systems Change (High Blood Pressure Strategy)

Primary outcome measure

Blood Pressure [ Time Frame: 36 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sheldon W Tobe, MD, FRCP(C)

416-480-6901 sheldon.tobe@sunnybrook.ca

Locations

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4P1E4

Contacts

Margaret Moy Lum-Kwong, BSc.N, MBA, CHE

416-489-7111 moylumkwong@hsf.on.ca

Shirley Von Sychowski, BA, MA

416-489-7111 svsychowski@hsf.on.ca

More Information

Sponsor

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Last update posted

Aug 19, 2008

Last verified

Aug, 2008

Keywords

Hypertension
Blood Pressure

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario on 2008-08-19.