Key result
Shifting hypertension care to community clinics linked to 80% BP control and fewer missed visits.
Why the study?
Bangladesh faces a high hypertension burden and healthcare worker shortages concentrated in urban areas, suggesting task shifting to community clinics could help decentralise care.
Does task-shifting medicine refilling and follow-up to community clinics maintain blood pressure control and reduce missed visits in patients with controlled hypertension?
Observational (n=1,101)
Yes
Does task-shifting medicine refilling and follow-up to community clinics maintain blood pressure control and reduce missed visits in patients with controlled hypertension?
Task-shifting hypertension follow-up and medication refills to community clinics in Bangladesh maintained high rates of blood pressure control and reduced missed visits.
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May support task-shifting hypertension follow-up in low-resource settings; leaves open confirmation in randomized trials.
Jubayer et al. (2025) conducted an observational in Hypertension (n=1,101). Task shifting of medicine refilling and follow-up to community clinics was evaluated on Blood pressure under control (BP<140/90 mmHg). Task shifting of hypertension follow-up and medicine refilling to community clinics resulted in 80% of patients maintaining controlled blood pressure.
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