Financial Incentives to Translate ALLHAT Into Practice: A Randomized Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00302718 ↗Summary
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Proportion of the Physicians' Patients With Blood Pressure Control or Appropriate Response to Uncontrolled Blood Pressure |
75; 80; 79; 86 | — |
| PRIMARY Proportion of Physicians' Patients With Blood Pressure Control or Appropriate Response to Uncontrolled Blood Pressure |
83; 82; 83; 87 | — |
| PRIMARY Proportion of Physicians' Patients Prescribed Guideline-recommended Antihypertensive Medications |
66; 65; 73; 71 | — |
| SECONDARY Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening |
80.43; 80.22; 72.28; 85.41 | <.0001 sig |
| SECONDARY Low-density Lipoprotein (LDL) Cholesterol Levels |
75.30; 70.37; 69.55; 74.12 | 0.2114 |
| SECONDARY Hemoglobin (Hb) A1c Levels |
89.05; 91.77; 90.94; 91.49 | 0.6954 |
| SECONDARY Beta Blocker Use |
70.51; 71.01; 69.50; 70.12 | 0.9895 |
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
Study participants had to be full-time primary care physicians employed by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) at one of the 12 VA hospitals that participated in the study.
We defined a full-time primary care physician as spending at least 0.60 full-time equivalent (FTE) delivering patient care services in the primary care setting or having a panel size of at least 500 patients at the time of study arm randomization. The primary care settings included internal medicine, primary care medical clinics, and women's health care clinics. The trial did not actively recruit patients into the study. This study retrospectively reviewed a random sample of health records of eligible patients that had clinical encounters with the physician participants.
Exclusion Criteria
The study did not include VA physicians that were trainees.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00302718). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.