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m-Power Heart Project - a nurse care coordinator led, mHealth enabled intervention to improve the management of hypertension in India: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial TRIALS Venkateshmurthy, N., Ajay, V. S., Mohan, S., Jindal, D., Anand, S., Kondal, D., Tandon, N., Rao, M., Prabhakaran, D. 2018; 19: 429

Abstract

The proportion of patients with controlled hypertension (?80%); difference in proportion of patients compliant to anti-hypertensive medication/s; cost-effectiveness of intervention versus enhanced care. All the outcomes will be assessed at 12 months.The study is expected to provide evidence on the effectiveness of NCC-led, EDSS-based hypertension management in India and can likely offer an exemplar for improving cardiovascular disease (CVD) management in India within the resource-constrained public healthcare system.ClinicalTrials.gov, ID: NCT03164317 ). Registered retrospectively on 23 May 2017 (first patient enrolled on 6 April 2017) because the authors did not receive a response to their original registration submission (5 January 2017) to the Clinical Trial Registry - India (CTRI).

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