Helping primary care teams support home blood pressure monitoring
Identifying Successful Strategies for Implementing Team-Based Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Primary Care
This project will try different ways to help clinics and patients use team-based home blood pressure checks to improve blood pressure control, especially in low-income and minority communities.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Rochester NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Rochester, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11176103 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
We will work with seven primary care practices that serve predominantly low-income and minority patients to design and deliver team-based home blood pressure monitoring. The team will give patients and clinic staff the training, tools, and data they need and will address how to pay for and sustain these services. Over the project we will try practical strategies in real clinics and track how well patients and teams adopt home monitoring and whether blood pressure improves. The goal is to find approaches clinics can realistically keep using.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal participants are people with high blood pressure who receive care at the participating primary care clinics, particularly patients from low-income or minority backgrounds.
Not a fit: People without hypertension, those who do not get care at the participating clinics, or those unable or unwilling to do home blood pressure checks are unlikely to benefit directly.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could help more people lower their blood pressure, reduce heart disease risk, and shrink racial and income-related gaps in care.
How similar studies have performed: Home blood pressure monitoring with team support has improved blood pressure in prior research, but putting it into routine primary care has proven difficult.
Where this research is happening
Rochester, United States
- University of Rochester — Rochester, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Fiscella, Kevin Anthony — University of Rochester
- Study coordinator: Fiscella, Kevin Anthony
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.