Cost-effectiveness of Wisconsin TEAM model for improving adherence and hypertension control in black patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the cost-effectiveness of the 6-month Team Education and Adherence Monitoring (TEAM) intervention for black patients with hypertension in community pharmacies using prospectively collected cost data.

Design

Cost-effectiveness analysis of a cluster-randomized trial.

Setting

Twenty-eight chain pharmacies in 5 Wisconsin cities from December 2006 to February 2009.

Participants

Five hundred seventy-six black patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

Intervention

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians using novel tools for improving adherence and feedback to patients and physicians as compared to information-only control group.

Main outcome measures

Incremental cost analysis of variable costs from the pharmacy perspective captured pros

SUBMITTER: Shireman TI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958589 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature