NCT05160012Active, not recruiting
Peer Comparison Feedback to Providers to Improve Hypertension Control
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
As part of a roll out of new payment model for physicians based on hypertension control, the investigators will evaluate a monthly peer comparison message to Primary Care Providers at Penn Medicine Lancaster to see whether provider engagement with patients' overall hypertension management increases, as measured by new or increasing doses of anti-hypertensive medications.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 93 (actual)
- First submitted
- 9 Nov 2021
- Start date
- 5 Apr 2022
- Primary completion date
- 6 Oct 2022
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT05160012
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 93
- From 5 Apr 2022 to the primary completion date, 6 Oct 2022
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Patients will be excluded if they are 66 and older with a frailty diagnosis and those with an advanced illness diagnosis within the past year; 81 and older with frailty diagnosis within the past year
Lab values
- It also excludes patients with end stage renal disease (indicated by evaluation of the GFR, diagnosis of end stage renal disease in last year, dialysis received in last year, or renal transplant) and patients with a pregnancy diagnosis in the last 9 months
Other
- Primary Care Providers includes providers with \<30 patients in the HTN quality metric
- It also excludes patients with an end of life indicator (comfort care encounter in last year, comfort care noted in problem list in last year, and comfort care/palliative care procedures in last year)
Who the study is looking for
- Primary Care Providers who have at =\>30 patients hypertension as determined by the HTN quality metric
- Patients aged 18-85 with hypertension in their encounter diagnosis within the last 2 years (office visits, ED/Urgent Care, Hospital, Hospital Encounter, and Prenatal Visit)
- Patients will be counted in the denominator of the quality metric if they have both systolic and diastolic BP measures from an encounter with their PCP department within the last year (including office visits, well child, prenatal visit, consult visit, confidential, e-visit, nursing only, home/offsite visit, and telemedicine) that is \>140 for systolic BP and \>90 diastolic BP
Age in the registry: 18 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lancaster | United States | Unknown status |
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