Effect of hypertension clinic program in Primary Health Care Unit on its patients’ blood pressure
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2010-01-15
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Songklanagarind Medical Journal
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The purpose of this research was to study the blood pressure level in hypertensive patient who received services inMaelan Hospital between January 2006 to December 2006 numbering of 242 patients compared with the same refered patients who received the services at Maelan Hospital between January to December 2007 numbering of 53 patients and refered to Primary Health Care Unit 189 patients who were taken care of by hypertension clinic program for the hypertensive patients in Maelan district Hospital which was established for the research and experiment.The data were analyzed statistically for percentage description ratio, standard devation and t-test (dependent t-test). The finding suggested that the patiens who received the services from high blood pressure Clinic at Maelan Hospital in 2006 and those who received the services from Primary Health Care Unit in 2007 were able to have better control of high blood pressure through the systolic pressure \< 140 mmHg and the diastolic pressure \< 90 mmHg with the different statistical significant importance at the level of .05 (t=4.074) (t=2.177) with the increase of normal blood pressure in 2007 systolic pressure \< 140 mmHg which been increased from 82 patients in 2006 to 108 patients in 2007 (13.7%) and diastolic pressure \< 90 mmHg which has been increased from 158 patients in 2006 to 160 patients in 2007 (1%) respectively.
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Songklanagarind Medical Journal; Vol. 26 No. 2 Mar-Apr 2008; 195-199