NCT02032472

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

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 677 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Measurement of Arterial Pressure	Pharmacies cooperate in measuring blood pressure of patients

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2014-01-10
• Last updated: 2014-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain