Blood pressure control after service remodeling of family doctor clinic, Maesot general hospital during COVID-19 pandemic

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Thanapon Tangsakul

Abstract

Background : According to impact of Coronavirus 2019 Infectious Disease (COVID-19) on non-communicable disease (NCD) service, family doctor clinic of Maesot general hospital reorganized NCD outpatient service. A measure was categorizing patients with poor controlled hypertension or other comorbidities to doctor-visiting group and well controlled all disease to got medicines without doctor visiting (re-medication group). Re-medication might effect on hypertension control.


Objective : 1) To estimate a prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension in follow-up visiting. 2) To compare hypertension control between categorized groups.


Methods and materials : Retrospective observational study was performed during 2020, August to October. Patients with hypertension visiting clinic during 2020, April (the first visiting) were recruited to compared hypertension control, mean of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mSBP and mDBP, respectively) in 6-month-prior- first visiting and follow-up one (after the first visiting).


Results : Two hundred seventy four patients were recruited and 254 of them presented on follow-up visiting. Prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension is 17.7 per cent in follow-up visiting. Proportion of controlled hypertension of re-medication group is 35.8 and 33.9 per cent in the first and follow-up visiting, respectively. For doctor-visiting group, proportion of controlled hypertension is 40.5 and 48.4 in the first and follow-up visiting, respectively. For doctor-visiting group, mSBP decreases from 133.55 to 129.98 mmHg (p-value <0.001) and mDBP decreases 78.65 to 76.52 mmHg (p-value 0.005). For re-medication group, mSBP and mDBP do not change significantly.


Conclusions : Re-medication effects on hypertension control. Doctor-visiting is important for hypertension control in COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tangsakul T. Blood pressure control after service remodeling of family doctor clinic, Maesot general hospital during COVID-19 pandemic. PCFM [internet]. 2021 Aug. 31 [cited 2025 May 2];4(2):39-4. available from: https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PCFM/article/view/247786
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