Effect of Nurse Practitioner Interventions on Hospitalizations in the Community Transitions Intervention Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite improvements in hypertension treatment in the United States, Black and Hispanic individuals experience poor blood pressure control and have worse hypertension-related outcomes compared to Whites.

Objective

The aim of the study was to determine the effect on hospitalization of supplementing usual home care (UHC) with two hypertension-focused transitional care interventions-one deploying nurse practitioners (NPs) and the other NPs plus health coaches.

Methods

We examined post hoc the effect of two hypertension-focused NP interventions on hospitalizations in the Community Transitions Intervention trial-a three-arm, randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of (a) UHC with (b) UHC plus a 30-day NP transitional care intervention or (c) UHC

SUBMITTER: Osakwe ZT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8231736 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature