Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension
Conditions
Brief summary
This quality improvement intervention seeks to implement two Best Practice Alerts (BPAs) for use in cardiology clinics while simultaneously evaluating the impact of each BPA- one for patients with uncontrolled blood pressure and one for patients with atrial fibrillation not on anticoagulation.
Detailed description
Best Practice Alerts based will be created for hypertension and atrial fibrillation. Outpatient cardiology providers will be randomly allocated into one of three groups. The first group will receive the BPA for hypertension alone. The second group will receive the BPA for atrial fibrillation alone. The final group will receive both BPAs. The rate of blood pressure control for all patients and anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation in each group will be evaluated prior to and after the implementation of the BPAs to determine the effect of the BPA.
Interventions
OTHERBest Practice Alert based in the Electronic Medical Record
Sponsors
Duke University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* all patients seen routinely by cardiologists at Duke
Exclusion criteria
* none
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Rates of anticoagulation among patients with atrial fibrillation | 1 year |
| Rates of hypertension control among patients seen by cardiology | 1 year |
Outcome results
None listed