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NCT07147075Enrolling by invitation

Provider Skill Building for Engagement and Communication in Healthcare - Hypertension Management

Provider Skill Building for Engagement and Communication in Healthcare - Hypertension Management (REACH - Hypertension)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Brief Summary: The study has three main goals: The first goal is to make a skills training program that improves how doctors talk with, listen to, and work with patients. The second goal is to make sure the process of collecting data and completing the program can be done. The third goal is to make sure the skills training program is feasible and acceptable for doctors. Study Activities: * Doctors will first complete a questionnaire and have their patients' appointments audio-recorded. * Then they will go through the training program. * After finishing the program, doctors will have more patient appointments audio-recorded. * Then the doctors will complete questionnaires again and have an interview with the study team.

Status (registry)
Enrolling by invitation
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
180 (estimated)
First submitted
21 Aug 2025
Start date
2 Sept 2025
Primary completion date
30 Jun 2027
Lead sponsor
Duke University
NCT number
NCT07147075

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 180
  • From 2 Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
  • 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

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Patient Cohort: Previously enrolled at any other timepoint

Other

  • Doctor Cohort: Not an independently practicing physician (MD, DO, PA, or NP) at the enrolled Duke Primary Care clinic
  • EHR Cohort: Urgent patient encounters

Who the study is looking for

  • Doctor Cohort: Independently practicing physicians (MD, DO, PA, or NP)
  • Doctor Cohort: Responsible for a panel of primary care adult patients in the Duke Primary Care clinic
  • Patient Cohort: Receiving primary care from an enrolled DPC clinician at the enrolled DPC clinic
  • Patient Cohort: Age at least 18 years
  • Patient Cohort: Diagnosis of hypertension based on EHR ICD coding
  • Patient Cohort: Able to complete a primary care encounter without an interpreter
  • Patient Cohort: Able to use the study tablet for consent, data collection, and audio-recording a clinical encounter
  • Patient Cohort, post-intervention: Not previously enrolled at any other timepoint
  • EHR Cohort: Non-urgent patient encounters for enrolled clinicians 6 months pre intervention to 6 months post intervention completion

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Duke Primary Care South Durham
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DurhamUnited StatesUnknown status

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