Efficiency of Monitoring and Control Program of Hypertension Through Pharmacy Offices. APOF Project

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hypertension
• Interventions: Other: Measurement of Arterial Pressure

• Registration Number: NCT02032472
• Lead Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Brief Summary

Background: Hypertension in adults is the factor most prevalent cardiovascular risk and motivates further inquiries, generating a very high cost of medical care.

Objective: To evaluate the monitoring of well-controlled hypertensive patients Pharmacy Offices. Hypothesis: the monitoring of these patients through the Office of Pharmacy will be as effective in obtaining good control of blood pressure as it is to obtained through health centers. Design: Multicenter randomized controlled trial along one year of follow up. Location: the city of Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona). Participants: All patients diagnosed with hypertension and good control criteria in the past year. Arms: Health centers (control) and Pharmacy Offices (intervention). Outcome variable: blood pressure under good control along the monitoring

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-01
• Primary Completion: 2011-12
• Study Completion: 2012-12
• Study First Submitted: 2013-12-23
• Status Verified: 2014-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-01-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-01-07
• Study First Posted: 2014-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 2014-01-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 677

Inclusion Criteria

• Age not less than 18 years
• HTA controlled over 2 years of evolution
• Subjects with a history open to participating health centers or stable residence in the geographic area
• Subjects who agree to participate

Exclusion Criteria

• Comorbidity and concomitant (Diabetes Mellitus, Heart failure or renal failure
• Patients with temporary residence in the geographic area of study
• Subjects of hypertension controlled by outside professionals to our primary care teams.
• Subjects with home care or any other cause which does not permit their displacement, transfer to the clinic or pharmacy during the evaluation period.
• Subjects with severe diseases of poor prognosis, hopefully less than one year of life.
• Subjects who do not have telephones.
• Subjects with communication problems (cognitive impairment, sensory, language barrier)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Collaboration of pharmacies	Measurement of Arterial Pressure	Pharmacies cooperate in Measurement of Arterial Pressure of patients

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percentage of hypertensive patients with criteria for good control of their arterial pressure along one year follow up	Monitoring of patients for 12 months (from January 1 to December 31, 2010)	We considered as a for good control criterion , obtaining values of systolic arterial pressure to below 140 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure below 90 mm Hg dea, held along the entire the year follow-up of patients

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
reduction in the number of visits to the health center to measure blood pressure	Monitoring of patients for 12 months (from January 1 to December 31, 2010)	The number of visits to the health center where blood pressure is measured. We hope that the number of visits to the health center where blood pressure is measured is lower in the intervention group (the patients have the option to go to the pharmacy to carrying out checks blood pressure)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut Català de la Salut (ICS); 🇪🇸 Cerdanyola del Valllés, Barcelona, Spain