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Telemonitoring-based service redesign for the management of uncontrolled hypertension (HITS): cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of a randomised controlled trial
  Objectives To compare the costs and cost-effectiveness of managing patients with uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) using telemonitoring versus usual care from the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS).


Design Within trial post hoc economic evaluation of data from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial using an intention-to-treat approach.


Setting 20 socioeconomically diverse general practices in Lothian, Scotland.


Participants 401 primary care patients aged 29–95 with uncontrolled daytime ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) (≥135/85, but

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    23 May 2013

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    BMJ Group

  • DOI:

    10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002681

  • Cross Ref:

    10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002681

  • ISSN:

    2044-6055

  • Library of Congress:

    RT Nursing

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    610.73 Nursing

Citation

Stoddart, A., Hanley, J., Wild, S., Pagliari, C., Paterson, M., Lewis, S., …McKinstry, B. (2013). Telemonitoring-based service redesign for the management of uncontrolled hypertension (HITS): cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 3(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002681

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Keywords

uncontrolled blood pressure; hypertension monitoring; telemonitoring; randomised control trial; NHS costs;

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