title: [Description of costs and effectiveness of a hypertension control program in primary care].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To find the control degree of a population of hypertension patients. To evaluate the cost effectiveness of health services.
  
  
  METHODS
  EAP Salvador Pau. Valencia (Spain).
  
  
  METHODS
  200 patients diagnosed of hypertension included in the health center file.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Items studied were age, sex, diagnosis and program inclusion year, number of visits, other explorations and its cost, TAS and TAD, drugs and its cost, personnel cost. We established different well control levels and we obtained the cost of each of them. Twenty six point five per cent of patients had TA values below 140/90 mmHg; Sixty four point five per cent had values below 160/90 mmHg. And sixty six point nine had values below 90 mmHg. Monthly medium cost per patient was 3242 pts. Monthly medium cost per patient well controlled was 12234 pts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Only a third of our patients are well controlled according the current standards. Efficiency decreases noteworthy when control levels are lower.
authors.affiliation: EAP Salvador Pau, Valencia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonet Plá
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Alastrué Loscos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giner Valero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Navarro Pérez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hortoneda Giménez
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Tejero Catalá
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000191:economics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents
vernacular_title: Descripción de los costes y la efectividad de un programa de control de hipertensos en atención primaria.