Status:

COMPLETED

Effectiveness of Pharmaceutical Care on Primary Care Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension

Lead Sponsor:

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Conditions:

Hypertension

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This randomized clinical trial is a multicentre study conducted at 4 community-based pharmacies within the Brazilian public health service, which freely distributes standardized medicines. The group c...

Detailed Description

Inclusion and exclusion criteria: Potential hypertensive subjects aged above 18 years and and continuously receiving their medicines from the pharmacy are going to be identified through administrative...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Potential hypertensive subjects aged above 18 years and and continuously receiving their medicines from the pharmacy are going to be identified through administrative data sources.
  • They must take at least hydrochlorothiazide, and have no modifications on their hypertensive drug prescription on the last 2 months.
  • To be considered eligible, the patients should have a mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure above 140 mmHg and 90 mmHg at the screening visit if there were no COM morbidities associated, and above 130 mmHg and 80 mmHg for high-risk patients.

Exclusion

  • Patients who have a serious psychiatric disorder or a severe cognitive impairment, blindness, pregnancy or secondary hypertension will be excluded.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2006

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 1 2008

Estimated Enrollment :

301 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00807131

Start Date

September 1 2006

End Date

August 1 2008

Last Update

December 11 2008

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Mauro Silveira de Castro

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil