Clinical value of blood pressure measurement in the community pharmacy.

Pharmacy World & Science : PWS
Daniel Sabater-HernándezMaría José Faus

Abstract

To investigate whether the measurement of blood pressure in the community pharmacy is a valuable method to diagnose hypertension, to assess the need and the effectiveness of anti-hypertensive treatments, or, in general, to make clinical decisions. Information has been extracted from articles published in English and in Spanish, from January 1989 to December 2009, in indexed magazines in MEDLINE and EMBASE. To perform the search, multiple and specified terms related to the community pharmacy setting, to blood pressure measurement and to the comparison and agreement between blood pressure measurement methods were used. Selected articles were those that: (1) compared and/or measured the agreement (concordance) between community pharmacy blood pressure measurements obtained in repeated occasions, or (2) compared and/or measured the agreement between the community pharmacy blood pressure measurement method and other measurement methods used in clinical practice for decision-making purposes: blood pressure measurement by a physician, by a nurse and home or ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Articles were included and analyzed by two investigators independently, who essentially extracted the main results of the manuscripts, emphasi...Continue Reading

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Oct 13, 2009·Medicina clínica·Daniel Sabater-HernándezMaría José Faus
Jul 24, 2010·Pharmacy World & Science : PWS·Daniel Sabater-HernándezMaría J Faus

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Apr 28, 2011·International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy·Daniel Sabater-HernándezMaría J Faus
Apr 22, 2011·American Journal of Hypertension·Daniel Sabater-HernándezUNKNOWN MEPAFAR study workgroup
Nov 18, 2011·American Journal of Hypertension·José Sendra-LilloFernando Martínez-Martínez
Jul 24, 2010·Pharmacy World & Science : PWS·Daniel Sabater-HernándezMaría J Faus

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