Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a major health problem affecting more than 119 million people in the United States. Although we know how to effectively treat hypertension, not all patients and health systems have access to or can use such treatments. It is important to understand how to implement effective treatments for hypertension across a wide range of settings serving diverse patients.
Study Overview
Our study, CHARMED (Comparing Hypertension Remote Monitoring Evaluation Redesign), looks at new ways to help people check their blood pressure at home. We'll try out different methods for patients to use home blood pressure monitors and provide various types of training and support to healthcare teams, including nurses, pharmacists, medical assistants, and doctors, to better manage high blood pressure. This approach allows us to explore multiple strategies at once. We hope to find the best ways to start, maintain, and expand home blood pressure monitoring for many different types of patients.
This research aims to benefit both people with high blood pressure and healthcare systems interested in remote blood pressure monitoring. Our findings should be especially helpful for those who face challenges using blood pressure monitors like people with limited English proficiency, as we will test different ways of self-managing and reaching out to these patients. We also hope to assist healthcare systems that struggle with monitoring patient care between visits, especially those that are short-staffed, by finding better ways to manage their workflows for hypertension care.
We will recruit 2,500 adults with high blood pressure in this study by working with 25 primary care clinics at three large safety-net health systems:
Contra Costa Health Services San Francisco Health Network Ventura County Health Care Agency
How do I get involved?
If you would like to participate in our study, please click on the link below that corresponds to your clinic location:
- Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS)
- San Francisco Health Network (SFHN)
- Ventura County Health Care Agency (VCHCA)
- Únase al estudio (Spanish)
To view additional resources and educational materials, please click on the link below:
If you are a clinician and would like to learn more about how to get involved, please contact us at via email at [email protected]. To view our Clinician Resource Repository, please click on the link below:
Study Team
Co-Principal Investigators
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco
Courtney Lyles, PhD
University of California, Davis
Co-Investigators
Elaine Khoong, MD, MS
University of California, San Francisco
Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco
Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS
University of California, San Francisco
Fan Xia, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Nooshin Abtahi, MD
Contra Costa Health Services
Rajiv Pramanik, MD
Contra Costa Health Services
Rachel Stern, MD
Ventura County Health Care Agency
Research Staff
Nilpa Shah, MPH, Program Manager - UCSF
Kristan Olazo, MPH, Research Data Analyst - UCSF
Faviola Garcia, Research Data Analyst - UCSF
Jaime Orozco, Engagement Coordinator - UCSF
Soo Park, Data Coordinator - UCSF
Christian Gutierrez, Clinical Research Coordinator - UCSF
Sara Guzman-Estrada, Clinical Research Coordinator – UCSF
Monica Naranjo Arellano, Clinical Research Coordinator - UCSF
Jorge Larreynaga, MSN, Clinical Research Coordinator - UCSF
Maria Plascencia-Mooradian, Clinical Research Coordinator - UCSF
Kelcie Rodriguez, MEd, Project Policy Analyst - UC Davis
Lina Tieu, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Scholar - UC Davis
Melissa Gosdin, PhD, Qualitative Research Analyst - UC Davis
Mary Ellen Janas, IT Project Manager - Contra Costa Health Services
Marjan Fathinejad - Contra Costa Health Services
Genevieve Jensen - Ventura County Health Care Agency
Funding
This project is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
IRB
This study is approved by the University of California San Francisco Institutional Review Board, IRB# 23-38340. If you have any questions about the study, you can email Dr. Urmimala Sarkar at [email protected]. You can reach the UCSF Human Research Protection Program office at (415) 476-1814, 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday.
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Feel free to reach out with questions about the study.
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