Physician-Pharmacist Collaborative Management: Narrowing the Socioeconomic Blood Pressure Gap.

ABSTRACT: Physician-pharmacist collaboration improves blood pressure, but there is little information on whether this model can reduce the gap in healthcare disparities. This trial involved 32 medical offices in 15 states. A clinical pharmacist was embedded within each office and made recommendations to physicians and patients in intervention offices. The purpose of the present analysis was to evaluate whether the pharmacist intervention could reduce healthcare disparities by improving blood pressure in high-risk racial and socioeconomic subjects compared with the control group. The analyses in minority subjects were prespecified secondary analyses, but all other comparisons were secondary, post hoc analyses. The 9-month visit was completed by 539 patients: 345 received the intervention, and 194 wer

SUBMITTER: Anderegg MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5063695 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature