Lipika Samal, John L Kilgallon, Stuart Lipsitz, Heather J Baer, Allison McCoy, Michael Gannon, Sarah Noonan, Ryan Dunk, Sarah W Chen, Weng Ian Chay, Richard Fay, Pamela M Garabedian, Edward Wu, Matthew Wien, Saul Blecker, Hojjat Salmasian, Joseph V Bonventre, Gearoid M McMahon, David W Bates, Sushrut S Waikar, Jeffrey A Linder, Adam Wright, Patricia Dykes
IMPORTANCE: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 37 million adults in the United States, and for patients with CKD, hypertension is a key risk factor for adverse outcomes, such as kidney failure, cardiovascular events, and death. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a computerized clinical decision support (CDS) system for the management of uncontrolled hypertension in patients with CKD. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This multiclinic, randomized clinical trial randomized primary care practitioners (PCPs) at a primary care network, including 15 hospital-based, ambulatory, and community health center-based clinics, through a stratified, matched-pair randomization approach February 2021 to February 2022...
March 11, 2024: JAMA Internal Medicine