ArticleBMC primary care2026
Quality-of-care of Filipino patients with hypertension in primary care settings.
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backgroundHypertension is one of the most common conditions seen in the Philippine primary care setting. Adequate quality of care provided in accordance with clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for the control and management of hypertension is necessary to improve patient outcomes. This study aimed to determine the quality of care received by Filipino patients with hypertension in selected urban, rural and remote primary care facilities. METHODOLOGY: This is a retrospective cohort study involving electronic medical records (EMR) data in three different study sites of the Philippine Primary Care Studies (PPCS) program. All outpatient visits of adult patients with a diagnosis of hypertension who consulted from the years 2019 to 2022 were included. Strong recommendations from the JNC8 guidelines were utilized to determine quality-of-care indicators, namely self-monitoring of blood pressure, type of pharmacologic management, advice on non-pharmacologic management, and advice to follow-up.
resultsThe study included a total of 2,452 patients with 7,277 hypertension-related consults across urban, rural, and remote study sites between the years 2019-2022. Across all patients with follow-up consults, 500 (20.5%) attained BP lowering threshold of < 140/<90 mmHg at their last consult. The proportion of patients who attained the desired threshold was lowest for the remote site (11.6%), compared to 24.9% for the urban site and 21.1% for the rural site. The most frequent pharmacologic management prescribed was angiotensin receptor blockers (49.1%), followed by calcium channel blockers (26.7%), thiazide diuretics (2.8%) and ACE-inhibitors (0.8%) across individual patients. These drugs were all moderately recommended in the JNC8 guidelines as initial antihypertensive treatment in the general population. Majority of patients (77.6%) did not have any recorded nonpharmacologic management.
conclusionHealth disparities in the quality of care in hypertension was observed, with poorest blood pressure control observed in the remote site. If not sufficiently addressed, the difference in hypertension control and burden of disease leads to inadvertent aggravation of pre-existing economic disadvantages.
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