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

NCT02032472 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 677

Last updated 2014-01-10

No results posted yet for this study

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

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Measurement of Arterial Pressure

Pharmacies cooperate in measuring blood pressure of patients

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institut Catala de Salut

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Oscar Solans, G Physician · Institut Català de la Salut (Spain)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

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