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VISN Collaborative for Improving Hypertension Management With ATHENA-HTN
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating ATHENA-CDS-HTN plus Guideline Link and Guideline Link Only for Hypertension. Completed, enrolled 103 participants across 7 sites.
Detailed Summary
This project is a VA HSR\&D-funded Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) project to translate into practice evidence about clinical management of primary hypertension. The project aims to contribute to quality improvement of care for patients with primary hypertension. The project implemented a clinical decision support (CDS) system for primary care clinicians and evaluated the implementation by studying the following: impact on the clinicians' prescribing and their patients' blood pressures; the clinician satisfaction with the CDS; and organizational factors in the implementation.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
ATHENA display provides guideline-based recommendations to clinicians at the time of patient care.
Primary care providers were sent, once, a link (URL) to the VA/DoD and JNC7 hypertension guidelines.