Table 1.
Baseline data
| Intervention patients | Control patients | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of practices | 10 | |
| Number of patients | 124* | 364 |
| Recruitment date | 14/04/11 to 07/11/11 | |
| Average age at baseline | 59 years | 60 years |
| Age range | 25–86 years | 36–87 years |
| Number of females | 49/124=40% | 146/361=40% |
| eGFR 1 year ago | 71 | 76 |
| Most recent eGFR | 77 | 79 |
| On hypertension register and attended for review in last 12 months | 95/109=87% | 305/348=88% |
| On CKD register and attended for review in last 12 months | 17/22=77% | 54/59=92% |
| Reason for inclusion: | ||
| CKD stage 3 or 4 with BP>130/85 mm Hg | 23 (18.5%) | 72 (19.8%) |
| Patient >50 years and has BP>140/90 mm Hg despite prescribed antihypertensive medication† | 101 (81.5%) | 292 (80.2%) |
*Two patients were excluded from all analyses as they had not managed to text in blood pressure readings correctly so all their data regarding blood pressure was unusable.
†Inclusion criteria classed as this if practices did not indicate a clear inclusion criterion or if a diagnosis of hypertension was being sought and patient did not have CKD.
BP, blood pressure; CKD, chronic kidney disease; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate.