Journal article
Identifying patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: A pharmacist-managed screening event for union workers and their dependents
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, Vol.49(4), pp.549-553
07/2009
DOI: 10.1331/JAPhA.2009.08024
PMID: 19589768
Abstract
To describe a pharmacist-managed health screening as a tool to identify patients who were at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Descriptive nonexperimental study.
A community pharmacy, a health benefit consulting company, and two local unions of plumbers and electricians in the Quad Cities area (Mid-Mississippi Valley) in fall 2006.
Union members and their dependents who received any one of the following pharmacist-managed screening services: systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), total cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
Pharmacist-managed CVD risk screening program coordinated by a health benefit consulting company.
Risk levels of CVD according to SBP, DBP, total cholesterol, and HDL.
452 patients 20 years of age or older were screened. A total of 137 participants (45.2%) had an SBP of 140 mm Hg or more and 73 (24.1%) a DBP of 90 mm Hg or more. Among patients who checked their total cholesterol or HDL, 81 (24.0%) had high total cholesterol and 55 (16.4%) low HDL.
A pharmacist-managed health screening program was a tool to identify patients at risk of CVD. At-risk individuals could be potential participants in a cardiovascular risk management service.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Identifying patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: A pharmacist-managed screening event for union workers and their dependents
- Creators
- Yifei Liu - University of Missouri–Kansas CityRandal P. McDonough - University of Missouri–Kansas CityKara M. CarruthersWilliam R. Doucette - University of Missouri–Kansas City
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, Vol.49(4), pp.549-553
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1331/JAPhA.2009.08024
- PMID
- 19589768
- ISSN
- 1544-3191
- eISSN
- 1544-3450
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2009
- Academic Unit
- Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984366014802771
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