PMID: 18211792Jan 24, 2008Paper

Compliance of hypertension patients estimated by means of website tool

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Connie Bondo Dydensborg, Tyge Krabbe

Abstract

The "Medicinprofilen" on the website www.sundhed.dk was introduced in 2004. This paper describes the application of this tool for the evaluation of compliance of patients in pharmacological treatment of hypertension in a general practice (single). Data about all patients with ICPC treatment code "K86 Ukompliceret hypertension", who were undergoing pharmacological treatment was used for the study. (n=296). All patients should have been treated for at least 1 year up to the data collection period which took place in the second half of the year 2005. We found that the "Medicinprofilen" was a suitable tool to estimate compliance. Among the patients examined we found that compliance was 95% (92.4-97.4). The "Medicinprofilen" is a suitable tool to estimate compliance of patients undergoing pharmacological treatment in general practice. A few methodical problems exist. The study showed a high rate of compliance for the group of patients undergoing treatment of hypertension.

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