Doctors get report cards: will peer pressure lower blood pressure?
NCT ID NCT05160012
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether sending primary care doctors a monthly report comparing their hypertension control rates to peers can improve patient care. About 93 doctors and their patients with high blood pressure are involved. The goal is to see if this feedback leads to more medication adjustments and better blood pressure control.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Peer comparison message (behavioral intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple, low-cost way to help doctors manage hypertension more effectively.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 93 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention only changes doctor behavior, not directly treating patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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93 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Apr 2022
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 85 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Primary Care Providers who have at =\>30 patients hypertension as determined by the HTN quality metric * Patients aged 18-85 with hypertension in their encounter diagnosis within the last 2 years (office visits, ED/Urgent Care, Hospital, Hospital Encounter, and Prenatal Visit) * Patients will be counted in the denominator of the quality metric if they have both systolic and diastolic BP measures from an encounter with their PCP department within the last year (including office visits, well child, prenatal visit, consult visit, confidential, e-visit, nursing only, home/offsite visit, and telemedicine) that is \>140 for systolic BP and \>90 diastolic BP Exclusion Criteria: * Primary Care Providers includes providers with \<30 patients in the HTN quality metric * Patients will be excluded if they are 66 and older with a frailty diagnosis and those with an advanced illness diagnosis within the past year; 81 and older with frailty diagnosis within the past year * It also excludes patients with end stage renal disease (indicated by evaluation of the GFR, diagnosis of end stage renal disease in last year, dialysis received in last year, or renal transplant) and patients with a pregnancy diagnosis in the last 9 months * It also excludes patients with an end of life indicator (comfort care encounter in last year, comfort care noted in problem list in last year, and comfort care/palliative care procedures in last year)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Lancaster General Hospital
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 17602, United States
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