The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded Duke University a $161,000 Project Grant under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to refine and pilot an evidence-based curriculum called "Reaching Equity" that teaches primary care clinicians implicit bias mitigation skills. The goal is to proceed to a full-scale randomized trial to test whether this training intervention can increase clinician use of implicit bias mitigation skills and reduce racial disparities in hypertension outcomes. The project will develop standardized protocols for clinician and patient enrollment, audio-recording of clinical encounters, data extraction from electronic health records, and data analysis. Duke will pilot these protocols in two primary care clinics, enrolling 20 clinicians and 100 patients, and assess clinician implicit bias mitigation skills and hypertension control outcomes. This planning grant, awarded on September 5, 2024, will provide the necessary steps to enable the subsequent definitive clinical trial.
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