HypertensionCohort study
Patient Engagement With Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Retrospective cohort study
- prospectively collected program data
- single health care system
Authors' conclusion
In this cohort study of a remote hypertension management program, patient engagement with HBPM was suboptimal despite free devices, education, and personalized support with a navigator.
Study context
- Population
- Adults with uncontrolled hypertension in a remote hypertension management program (free home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) devices, education, navigator support, algorithm-guided titration), Mass General Brigham, Boston, 2018–2022
- Participants
- 3,390 adults
- Exposure
- No engagement vs Low engagement vs Intermediate engagement vs High engagement
- No engagementn = 1,107
- Low engagementn = 484
- Intermediate engagementn = 618
- High engagementn = 1,181
- Outcome
- Engagement with home BP monitoring (weekly measurement frequency)
- Follow-up
- Baseline
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
HBPM engagement
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Patient Engagement With Home Blood Pressure Monitoring. JAMA Cardiol. Published 1 March 2026. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2025.5196
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it