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Hypertension care at primary health care center : a report from Abha Saudi Arabia
Joint Authors
al-Humrani, Muhammad Atiyyah
Khan, Muhammad Yunus
al-Khalidi, Yahya Matar
Al Gelban, Khalid S.
al-Amri, Hasan Saed
Source
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
Issue
Vol. 19, Issue 6 (31 Dec. 2008), pp.990-996, 7 p.
Publisher
Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation
Publication Date
2008-12-31
Country of Publication
Saudi Arabia
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
It is well known that effective management of hypertension reduces the incidence of myocardial infarction, stroke and vascular complications.
The Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, introduced the Quality Assurance Guidelines with the hope to improve the management of hypertension in its centers.
We conducted an audit of two Primary Health Care Centers namely, Al-Manhal (MPHCC) and Al-Numais (NPHCC), to evaluate how well hypertension was managened at these centers.
A check list was derived from the Quality Assurance Manual to audit the process and to assess the health outcome.
A retrospective study on a chosen sample of 120 files of hypertensive patients, out of 256 from both the Primary Health Care Centers was performed, during the last three months of the year 2000.
Results showed that 61% of the patients were between 45-64 years of age, 56% were females, 85% were married, 54% were illiterate and 7.5% were smokers.
A total of 92% of the patients had primary hypertension and 25% had a positive family history of hypertension.
Beta-blockers were the most commonly used drugs in both the centers.
Although the recording of the information was not perfect, there was no statistical difference in the socio-demongraphic data and also the means of the total score in both the centres.
On the other hand, carrying out the important procedures for hypertensive patients was found to be better at MPHCC in comparison to NPHCC (p < 0.05).
The commonly missed procedures were chest x-rays, electrolytes and ECG.
Hypertension was well controlled in 63% of the patients, 58% were found to have obesity, 9% suffered from hypertension-related complications while almost 50% had good compliance to appointment in both the centers.
Our study reveals that the process of hypertension care at the two Primary Health Care Centres in Aseer region was not in accordance with the recommended national standards.
The reasons include lack of updating systems, recall system and provision of laboratory services and all these factors need to be addressed to improve care.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Humrani, Muhammad Atiyyah& Khan, Muhammad Yunus& al-Khalidi, Yahya Matar& Al Gelban, Khalid S.& al-Amri, Hasan Saed. 2008. Hypertension care at primary health care center : a report from Abha Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation،Vol. 19, no. 6, pp.990-996.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-40241
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Humrani, Muhammad Atiyyah…[et al.]. Hypertension care at primary health care center : a report from Abha Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation Vol. 19, no. 6 (Dec. 2008), pp.990-996.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-40241
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Humrani, Muhammad Atiyyah& Khan, Muhammad Yunus& al-Khalidi, Yahya Matar& Al Gelban, Khalid S.& al-Amri, Hasan Saed. Hypertension care at primary health care center : a report from Abha Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation. 2008. Vol. 19, no. 6, pp.990-996.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-40241
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 995-996
Record ID
BIM-40241