Assessing the adequacy of antihypertensive treatment in a health centre in finland.
The Finnish sickness insurance scheme provides for free medicines for patients suffering from certain chronic diseases, such as hypertension. The level of control of hypertension among a group of 169 patients receiving free medicine was found to be inadequate. There are implications both for the prognosis of the patients and the cost-effectiveness of the free medicine programme.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003151:Community Health Centers; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics