Seguimiento farmacoterapéutico a pacientes con hipertensión arterial esencial que asisten a consulta externa en el Subcentro de Salud INNFA de Sucúa

Abstract

Therapeutic follow up is a novel service that has shown greater effectiveness in obtaining better results with drug application in the treatment of patients with Arterial Hypertension. A prospective, longitudinal, and descriptive study with pharmaceutical intervention was performed in order to make a pharmacotherapeutic follow up to a group of patients with essential Arterial Hypertension who attended to outpatient service at INNFA Health Subcenter in Sucúa city, in the province of Morona Santiago. The monitoring was held during six months based on some procedures of the DADER method to a group of 34 patients over 50 years old, female gender was predominant and obesity among patients in the study. The most frequent secondary pathology along with hypertension was diabetes mellitus. Related problems detected in most of the patients were effectiveness related with treatment failure. Adherence to treatment was higher with monotherapy and less with drug combinations. An educational intervention was performed to improve adherence to treatment, thus demonstrating a level of significance of 5% between adherence to treatment before surgery and adhesion after surgery.