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Team-Based Care and Improved Blood Pressure Control

Context Uncontrolled hypertension remains a widely prevalent cardiovascular risk factor in the U.S. team-based care, established by adding new staff or changing the roles of existing staff such as nurses and pharmacists to work with a primary care provider and the patient. Team-based care has the po...

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Published in:American journal of preventive medicine 2014-07, Vol.47 (1), p.86-99
Main Authors: Proia, Krista K., MPH, Thota, Anilkrishna B., MBBS, MPH, Njie, Gibril J., MPH, Finnie, Ramona K.C., DrPH, Hopkins, David P., MD, MPH, Mukhtar, Qaiser, PhD, Pronk, Nicolaas P., PhD, MA, Zeigler, Donald, PhD, Kottke, Thomas E., MD, Rask, Kimberly J., MD, PhD, Lackland, Daniel T., DrPH, Brooks, Joy F., MHA, Braun, Lynne T., PhD, CNP, FAHA, Cooksey, Tonya, MS, RD
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Summary:Context Uncontrolled hypertension remains a widely prevalent cardiovascular risk factor in the U.S. team-based care, established by adding new staff or changing the roles of existing staff such as nurses and pharmacists to work with a primary care provider and the patient. Team-based care has the potential to improve the quality of hypertension management. The goal of this Community Guide systematic review was to examine the effectiveness of team-based care in improving blood pressure (BP) outcomes. Evidence acquisition An existing systematic review (search period, January 1980–July 2003) assessing team-based care for BP control was supplemented with a Community Guide update (January 2003–May 2012). For the Community Guide update, two reviewers independently abstracted data and assessed quality of eligible studies. Evidence synthesis Twenty-eight studies in the prior review (1980–2003) and an additional 52 studies from the Community Guide update (2003–2012) qualified for inclusion. Results from both bodies of evidence suggest that team-based care is effective in improving BP outcomes. From the update, the proportion of patients with controlled BP improved (median increase=12 percentage points); systolic BP decreased (median reduction=5.4 mmHg); and diastolic BP also decreased (median reduction=1.8 mmHg). Conclusions Team-based care increased the proportion of people with controlled BP and reduced both systolic and diastolic BP, especially when pharmacists and nurses were part of the team. Findings are applicable to a range of U.S. settings and population groups. Implementation of this multidisciplinary approach will require health system–level organizational changes and could be an important element of the medical home.
ISSN:0749-3797
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DOI:10.1016/j.amepre.2014.03.004