A Systems-Level Approach to Improving Medication Adherence in Hypertensive Latinos: a Randomized Control Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite numerous interventions targeting medication adherence in patients with uncontrolled hypertension, practice-based trials in Latino patients are scant.

Objective

To evaluate the effect of a systems-level adherence intervention, delivered by medical assistants (MAs), versus a comparison condition on medication adherence and blood pressure (BP) in 119 hypertensive Latino patients who were initially non-adherent to their antihypertensive medications.

Study design

Randomized control trial.

Participants

Patients (50% women; mean age, 61 years) were recruited from April 2013 to August 2015 in a community-based practice in New York.

Intervention

Systems-level approach that included an office system component built into the electronic health rec

SUBMITTER: Schoenthaler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6957668 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature