Status:
COMPLETED
Financial Incentives to Translate ALLHAT Into Practice: A Randomized Trial
Lead Sponsor:
VA Office of Research and Development
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Conditions:
Hypertension
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study was to determine whether financial incentives for guideline-recommended treatment of hypertension are effective. We hypothesized that patients with hypertension cared for by ...
Detailed Description
Background: Despite compelling evidence of the benefits of treatment, hypertension is controlled in less than one-quarter of US citizens. Using a cluster randomized controlled trial, we tested the ef...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Study participants had to be full-time primary care physicians employed by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) at one of the 12 VA hospitals that participated in the study.
- We defined a full-time primary care physician as spending at least 0.60 full-time equivalent (FTE) delivering patient care services in the primary care setting or having a panel size of at least 500 patients at the time of study arm randomization. The primary care settings included internal medicine, primary care medical clinics, and women's health care clinics. The trial did not actively recruit patients into the study. This study retrospectively reviewed a random sample of health records of eligible patients that had clinical encounters with the physician participants.
Exclusion
- The study did not include VA physicians that were trainees.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
83 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00302718
Start Date
February 1 2007
End Date
September 1 2012
Last Update
January 30 2019
Active Locations (12)
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1
VA Medical Center, Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233
2
VA Connecticut Health Care System (Newington)
Newington, Connecticut, United States, 06111
3
VA Medical Center, Augusta
Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30904
4
VA Medical Center, Jamaica Plain Campus
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02130