Why the study?
Community pharmacists are qualified to engage in health screenings, prompting the evaluation of a novel model for blood pressure monitoring and counseling to assess elevated blood pressure prevalence and patient characteristics.
Does a community pharmacy-based blood pressure screening program effectively identify elevated blood pressure in adults without known cardiovascular disease?
Does a community pharmacy-based blood pressure screening program effectively identify elevated blood pressure in adults without known cardiovascular disease?
Community pharmacy-based blood pressure screening can effectively identify undiagnosed elevated blood pressure and facilitate early physician referral.
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May support pharmacist-led CV risk screening in communities; hypothesis-generating and needs prospective validation before practice change.
Waszyk-Nowaczyk et al. (2020) studied this question.
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