Southeastern Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure Control

ractices that are randomized to the practice facilitation arm will work with a practice facilitator that will help practice staff for 15 months to make practice level changes to improve hypertension control. Practice facilitation is a highly customized, staged approach to helping a practice to implement process and structural changes to enhance the quality of care and improve patient and staff satisfaction

Participants enrolled from practices that are randomized to the peer coach arm will be matched with peer advisors who will work with the participants for 12 months.

Practices in the usual enhanced care arm will receive a blood pressure medication algorithm developed using national guidelines and content experts on our study team. Practices will be provided the Joint National Committee (JNC) recommended protocol to measuring blood pressures. Practices will receive a laptop workstation that has access to the Patient Activated Learning System - an online education video system.