A Study to Evaluate PCORnet Blood Pressure Home Monitoring

Overview

About this study

The primary purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of Smartphone-linked versus standard home BP monitors for helping patients with uncontrolled hypertension achieve a reduction in systolic blood pressure (SBP).

 

Participation eligibility

Participant eligibility includes age, gender, type and stage of disease, and previous treatments or health concerns. Guidelines differ from study to study, and identify who can or cannot participate. There is no guarantee that every individual who qualifies and wants to participate in a trial will be enrolled. Contact the study team to discuss study eligibility and potential participation.

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age ≥ 18 years old.
  • At least one ambulatory visit in one of the participating study sites during the past year.
  • SBP > 145 mmHg at most recent clinic visit (may be treated with BP meds already or not), as reported by the participant.
  • A self-reported commitment to “work on lowering your blood pressure by 10 points or more to reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke."
  • Owns a Smartphone (Android or iOS) and has an email address.
  • Willing to receive text messages from the study.
  • Can read/write English well enough to use English-based Smartphone apps and fill out online surveys in English.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Has an arm circumference < 22 cm or > 42 cm.
  • Owns a functioning Home Blood Pressure Monitor (HBPM) and has used it in the last 3 months.

 

 

Participating Mayo Clinic locations

Study statuses change often. Please contact the study team for the most up-to-date information regarding possible participation.

Mayo Clinic Location Status Contact

Rochester, Minn.

Mayo Clinic principal investigator

Alanna Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Open for enrollment

Contact information:

BP Home Study Team

(833) 399-2539

RSTBPHOMESTUDY@mayo.edu

More information

Publications

  • In the search for more straightforward ways of summarizing patient experiences and satisfaction, there is growing interest in the Net Promoter Score (NPS): How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague? Read More on PubMed
  • Satisfaction with care is important to both patients and to those who pay for it. The Net Promoter Score (NPS), widely used in the service industries, has been introduced into the NHS as the 'friends and family test'; an overarching measure of patient satisfaction. It assesses the likelihood of the patient recommending the healthcare received to another, and is seen as a discriminator of healthcare performance. We prospectively assessed 6186 individuals undergoing primary lower limb joint replacement at a single university hospital to determine the Net Promoter Score for joint replacements and to evaluate which factors contributed to the response. Achieving pain relief (odds ratio (OR) 2.13, confidence interval (CI) 1.83 to 2.49), the meeting of pre-operative expectation (OR 2.57, CI 2.24 to 2.97), and the hospital experience (OR 2.33, CI 2.03 to 2.68) are the domains that explain whether a patient would recommend joint replacement services. These three factors, combined with the type of surgery undertaken (OR 2.31, CI 1.68 to 3.17), drove a predictive model that was able to explain 95% of the variation in the patient's recommendation response. Though intuitively similar, this 'recommendation' metric was found to be materially different to satisfaction responses. The difference between THR (NPS 71) and TKR (NPS 49) suggests that no overarching score for a department should be used without an adjustment for case mix. However, the Net Promoter Score does measure a further important dimension to our existing metrics: the patient experience of healthcare delivery. Read More on PubMed
  • This preliminary study compared the associations between objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) with psychological and physical variables among 157 healthy White women, 59 of whom subsequently participated in a laboratory stress study. Compared with objective indicators, subjective social status was more consistently and strongly related to psychological functioning and health-related factors (self-rated health, heart rate, sleep latency, body fat distribution, and cortisol habituation to repeated stress). Most associations remained significant even after controlling for objective social status and negative affectivity. Results suggest that, in this sample with a moderately restricted range on SES and health, psychological perceptions of social status may be contributing to the SES-health gradient. Read More on PubMed
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