Pharmacist interventions to improve hypertension management: protocol for a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hypertension management remains a major public health challenge in primary care. Innovative interventions to improve blood pressure (BP) control are needed. One approach is through community-based models of care with the involvement of pharmacists and other non-physician healthcare professionals. Our objective is to systematically review the evidence of the impact of pharmacist care alone or in collaboration with other healthcare professionals on BP among hypertensive outpatients compared with usual care. Because these interventions can be complex, with various components, the effect size may differ between the type of interventions. One major focus of our study will be to assess carefully the heterogeneity in the effects of these interventions to identify which ones w

SUBMITTER: Gastens V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092164 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature