Tailored interventions by community pharmacists and general practitioners improve adherence to statins in a Spanish randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of health professionals' intervention on adherence to statins, the influence on total cholesterol levels, and lifestyle patterns in patients with hypercholesterolemia and analyze the differences according to the center of recruitment.

Study setting

Forty-six community pharmacies and 50 primary care centers of Spain.

Study design

Randomized controlled trial design (n = 746). Patients were assigned into adherent (ADH) or nonadherent group depending on their initial adherence to statins. Nonadherent patients were randomly assigned to intervention (INT) or nonintervention (NOINT) group. Patients enrolled in the INT group received an intervention depending on the cause of nonadherence. Patients in the ADH and NOINT groups received usual car

SUBMITTER: Onatibia-Astibia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505412 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature