Clinical trial NCT02032472: Efficiency of Monitoring and Control Program of Hypertension Through Pharmacy Offices. APOF Project
Official title: Efficiency Program Monitoring and Control of Hypertension Through Pharmacy Offices. APOF Project
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Hypertension
Keywords: Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
Arterial Pressure
Hypertension Controlled
Pharmacies
Lead sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Institut Catala de Salut
First posted: 2014-01-10
Enrollment: 677
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

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


Eligibility criteria: 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)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of hypertensive patients with criteria for good control of their arterial pressure along one year follow up
timeFrame: Monitoring of patients for 12 months (from January 1 to December 31, 2010)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: reduction in the number of visits to the health center to measure blood pressure
timeFrame: Monitoring of patients for 12 months (from January 1 to December 31, 2010)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cerdanyola del Valllés
country: Spain
facility: Institut Català de la Salut (ICS)
state: Barcelona
Study officials:
affiliation: Institut Català de la Salut (Spain)
name: Oscar Solans, G Physician
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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