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| Institut Catala de Salut | OTHER_GOV |
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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
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Health Center (usual practice) | No Intervention | Controlling arterial pressure in the health center (a common practice is carried out) | |
| Collaboration of pharmacies | Experimental | Pharmacies cooperate in Measurement of Arterial Pressure of patients |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Measurement of Arterial Pressure | Other | Pharmacies cooperate in measuring blood pressure of patients |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Percentage of hypertensive patients with criteria for good control of their arterial pressure along one year follow up | 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 | Monitoring of patients for 12 months (from January 1 to December 31, 2010) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| reduction in the number of visits to the health center to measure blood pressure | 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) | Monitoring of patients for 12 months (from January 1 to December 31, 2010) |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Oscar Solans, G Physician | Institut Català de la Salut (Spain) | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Institut Català de la Salut (ICS) | Cerdanyola Del Valllés | Barcelona | 08290 | Spain |
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| ID | Term |
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| D006973 | Hypertension |
| ID | Term |
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| D014652 | Vascular Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
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