Identifying patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: a pharmacist-managed screening event for union workers and their dependents.

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OBJECTIVE: To describe a pharmacist-managed health screening as a tool to identify patients who were at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). DESIGN: Descriptive nonexperimental study. SETTING: 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.Patients: 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). INTERVENTION: Pharmacist-managed CVD risk screening program coordinated by a health benefit consulting company. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Risk levels of CVD according to SBP, DBP, total cholesterol, and HDL. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSION: 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.

Author information

Author/s: Liu, Yifei (Y); McDonough, Randal P (RP); Carruthers, Kara M (KM); Doucette, William R (WR);

Affiliation: Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA (J Am Pharm Assoc (2003)), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2009 Jul-Aug; vol 49 (issue 4) : pp 549-53

Dates: Created 2009/07/10; Completed 2009/07/23;

PMID: 19589768, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 8/20/2009, IMS Date: )

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