Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Northwestern University
With
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Age
18–84
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Age 18-84 years at enrollment date
Receives hypertension care primarily from a participating clinician
Blood pressure on the two most recent days when ambulatory clinic blood pressure was obtained prior to patient identification to was ≥140 mm Hg systolic and/or ≥90 diastolic or last ambulatory clinic blood pressure was ≥150 mm Hg systolic and/or ≥95 diastolic
Currently has or is willing to obtain a patient portal account from NM.
You may not be if
Dementia,
Nursing home resident,
Stage 5 chronic kidney disease or renal replacement therapy,
Pregnancy,
Receiving hospice,
Not planning to continue to receive hypertension care from NM clinician for the next year,
Planning to move from the region in the next year,
Planning to change clinician treating their hypertension in the next year,
Medical or psychological reason they cannot perform home blood pressure monitoring.
Known to have average home blood pressure or most recent home blood pressure value of \<130/80 mm Hg.
CLINICIAN PARTICIPANT INCLUSION Physician, advanced practice nurse or physician assistant working at a Northwestern Medicine ambulatory primary care site that cares for adults with hypertension (family medicine, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, and ambulatory geriatrics sites).
CLINICIAN PARTICIPANT EXCLUSION
Primary care physicians and clinicians not willing for their patients to participate in study
Planning to depart NM within the next year
Not willing to receive patients' out-of-office blood pressure data
