Hypertension And Surgery Study: Evaluating the Implementation of a Hypertension Guideline Protocol

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-03-16
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

HASS-2 is a multi-center, cross-sectional quality improvement project: evaluating the implementation of a hypertension guideline protocol by perioperative clinicians, as a model for improving various aspects of public health. The study will also describe the co-morbid risk profile of these newly identified or poorly controlled hypertensive patients. In addition, as a sub-study, these patients will be followed up at monthly intervals for 3 months after discharge, in order to quantify the rates of compliance with their prescribed treatment.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Cape Town
• Treatments: Antihypertensive Agents

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult (older than 18 years)

• Elective surgery at preoperative in-hospital visit

• All stage 1 and stage 2 hypertensive patients as defined by the South African Hypertension Practice Guideline 2014

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal

• Day case surgery

• Obstetric and cardiac surgery

• Patients with severe hypertension (>180/110 mmHg) as defined by the South African Hypertension Practice Guideline 2014