B L Carter

..The authors will suggest additional research that needs to be conducted to help evaluate strategies to best implement team-based care to improve blood pressure management...

..This study demonstrates that blood pressure can be controlled in a high number of patients with diabetes following our physician/pharmacist collaborative model...

..e., absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination) or pharmacodynamic interactions. Physicians and pharmacists must remain vigilant in their monitoring of potential drug interactions and make appropriate dosage or therapy adjustments...

..Team-based care is the strategy that has had the greatest effect on improving blood pressure (BP). The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the potency of interventions for BP involving nurses or pharmacists...

..Drug interactions are a frequent cause of adverse drug events. We evaluated whether the frequency of previously reported antihypertensive drug-drug interactions could be reduced by pharmaceutical case management...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate if a physician and pharmacist collaborative model in community-based medical offices could improve BP control...

..5 to 2.0 times as potent as hydrochlorothiazide, and the former has a much longer duration of action. Whether these pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic features cause differences in outcomes is not known...

..The strategies for lowering BP levels include patient lifestyle changes, adherence to therapy, and regular monitoring of BP levels...

..When these strategies are employed, the adverse effects seen with diuretics can be minimized or negated, and in so doing cardiovascular benefits can be optimized...

..To assess blood pressure control after discontinuation of a physician-pharmacist collaborative intervention...

..Strategies that are designed only to improve knowledge of hypertension guidelines are insufficient to improve BP control rates...

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..CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00935077...

..We evaluated the frequency of potential drug-drug interactions in patients receiving medications commonly used for hypertension...

..This review proposes strategies to implement stronger interventions and more robust study designs in comparative effectiveness trials that evaluate team-based care for improving BP control...

..e., absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination) or pharmacodynamic interactions. Physicians and pharmacists must remain vigilant in their monitoring of potential drug interactions and make appropriate dosage or therapy adjustments...

..Pharmacist-physician comanagement of hypertension has been shown to improve office blood pressures (BPs). We sought to describe the effect of such a model on 24-hour ambulatory BPs...

..Patients and providers differed in perceived value of various aspects of hypertension management; this information may help to determine trial design and quality improvement strategies in the future...

..To determine the relationship between poor adherence and self-efficacy or social support after a pharmacist intervention...

..The aim of this study is to describe recommendations made by clinical pharmacists when co-managing hypertension with physicians...

..The background and methods of an ongoing study to determine the effects of hospital pharmacists' enhanced communication with patients and their community providers are described...

..However, shortened sessions do not characterize the influence of circadian variation on the 24-hour mean BP and may overestimate the 24-hour BP levels...

..5-25 mg) remains more widely prescribed. We sought to describe their comparative dose-response relationships for changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and potassium...

..Past work suggests that the degree of similarity between patient and physician attitudes may be an important predictor of patient-centered outcomes...

..9; CI, 3.8-20.7; P<.001). Physician/pharmacist collaboration achieved significantly better mean BP values and overall BP control rates, primarily by intensification of medication therapy and improving patient adherence...

..8+/-3.5; P=0.84). Within recommended doses, chlorthalidone is more effective in lowering systolic BPs than hydrochlorothiazide, as evidenced by 24-hour ambulatory BPs. These differences were not apparent with office BP measurements...

..To test the effect of pharmaceutical case management (PCM) on medication safety and health care utilization...

..To review relevant literature and provide opinions regarding the use of blood pressure as a surrogate measure to predict cardiovascular risk...

..To review the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, clinical efficacy, and safety of eplerenone, a new selective aldosterone blocker...

..The optimal 6-h threshold for comparison depends upon indication for referral...

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..Nonadherence was rated as justifiable for only 6.6% of the failed explicit criteria. In general, adherence to the JNC 7 guidelines was modest even when barriers that might have affected adherence were taken into consideration...

..This review summarizes studies involving pharmacist participation in hypertension management and provides recommendations for obtaining pharmacist involvement...

..In addition, use of the tool will provide clinicians with a taxonomy for evaluating practice and describing the effect of improved patient care on patient outcomes...

..To evaluate the reliability of a newly developed taxonomy--the Clinical Pharmacist Recommendation (CPR) taxonomy--to classify clinical pharmacy interventions...

..This review covers the classes discussed by JNC-7, including angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and diuretics...

..To evaluate trends in adverse symptoms as blood pressure becomes controlled, and to determine if these symptoms are influenced by social support and self-efficacy...

..While increasing patients' access to medications is necessary, the results of this study suggest that this in itself is not sufficient to ensure good BP control...

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..To examine the influence of specific patient characteristics on the success of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM)...

..The measure was analyzed for its factor structure, internal consistency, construct validity, and other psychometric properties...

..To examine the sensitivity and criterion validity of the 14-item Physician/Pharmacist Collaboration Index (PPCI)...

..These data suggest that thiazide-induced hypokalemia is associated with increased blood glucose. Treatment of thiazide-induced hypokalemia may reverse glucose intolerance and possibly prevent the future development of diabetes...

..To evaluate the effectiveness of a community pharmacist-based home blood pressure (BP) monitoring program...

..There are no studies that have examined the types of characteristics which most influence development of collaborative relationships between physicians and pharmacists...

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..Such determinations often require the creation of a drug regimen at a particular point in time. The objective of this study was to develop a computer algorithm for defining a cross-sectional active drug list...