Heart 2 Heart Study Meets Recruitment Goals
For any research study a major milestone is reaching the recruitment goal. We would like to thank all the practices, clinicians, and their patients that were needed for the study to achieve this goal.
The Heart 2 Heart study compares two methods for improving blood pressure control in people who have uncontrolled hypertension at enrollment. “Enhanced usual care” participants get a home blood pressure monitoring device, basic educational materials and the care they usually get from their clinician. “Telemonitoring/Team-Care” participants get a cellular enabled home blood pressure monitoring device and telehealth visits with a Clinical Pharmacist to help them manage their blood pressure.
The research team enrolled 720 participants in this study and people will be monitored for 12 months.
This study is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a government sponsored nonprofit. Link to PCORI study entry
PCORI Science Fair for Congress
PCORI hosted its third annual Congressional Science Fair October 23rd 2025 for principal investigators and community partners to share research results with lawmakers. PCORI researcher presented on on patient-center comparative effectiveness research using plain language. Featured topics were on maternal health, telehealth and youth mental health and the impact of sustained research funding on patients, families and communities.
PCORI Projects from North Carolina represented at the Science Fair. The Heart 2 Heart study and the Thriving Hearts Study focused on maternity care.
Pictured are Quintana Stewart, MPA, Health Director, Orange County Health Department, Christin Hayward, MS, CHES, Project Operations Manager Thriving Hearts Study, UNC Chapel Hill, and Jacquie Halladay, MD MPH, Co-Director of NCNC, Professor of Family Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill
Jacquie Halladay MD, MPH also moderated a panel discussion titled ““Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring, No More Clinic Visits?”
NAPCRG Presentations
The North American Primary Care Research Group hosts an annual meeting that is the largest primary care research meeting of its kind.
NCNC practices based researchers gave oral presentations and posters at the annual meeting November 21-25, 2025 in Atlanta Georgia. The abstracts from the meeting have been published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Oral Presentations:
- Stakeholder Engagement evaluation during Implementation of Coach McLungsSM , an Asthma Shared Decision Making Intervention
- A nurse care management model in primary care to serve rural-dwelling people with chronic pain: results from a pilot trial
- Training nurses as care managers to treat chronic pain in rural primary care settings
Posters:
- The Science of Primary Care: Successes and Challenges of Virtual Visits with Rural Patients
- Heart 2 Heart study: The Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner Facilitated Management for Blood Pressure Medicine Changes
- Baseline Demographic Characteristics of Asthma Patients in Primary Care compared to Asthma Patients Utilizing Coach McLungsSM
- Contraceptive Implant Insertion Service by Pharmacists: An Empty Systematic Review
- Boosting Engagement in Diabetes Self-Management with Peer Support
Acknowledgements
NCNC would like to thank UNC’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research which seeks to improve the health of individuals, family and populations, and the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute which supports research that advances the science of translation with the goal of overcoming barriers to rapid translation of research into clinical practice. We thank these organizations for all they do that make our work possible.
