Blood Pressure First Medication Therapy Management (BP First)

American Pharmacists Association Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Cardiovascular Diseases; Blood Pressure

Treatments: Behavioral: Health Management; Blood Pressure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04275934

020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this project is to improve the health status of participants through pharmacist-delivered blood pressure control programs that demonstrate value to employers and justify adoption, sustainability and scalability of these programs.

Full description

Univariate comparisons of the baseline/pre-intervention outcomes to the post-intervention outcomes will be performed on outcomes in order to determine how the intervention affects each. For continuous outcomes data the univariate comparisons of the pre-treatment and post-intervention outcomes will be performed using related samples t-test comparisons. For categorical outcomes data, comparisons of pre-intervention to post-intervention time frames will be performed using McNemar tests.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All health plan beneficiaries 18 years-of-age and older
• Have filled at least one blood pressure medication in the last three months,
• Have a known hypertension diagnosis or have an uncontrolled blood pressure

Exclusion criteria

• Not an adult
• Not a health plan beneficiary of the self-insured employer
• Not ambulatory and able to work or participate in care visits

Trial design

27 participants in 1 patient group

Cohort

Description:

This project will evaluate the impact of self-insured employers implementing an innovative care model utilizing pharmacist-delivered MTM services for health plan beneficiaries with high blood pressure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health Management; Blood Pressure