The researchers will invite individuals with high blood pressure who come to the emergency department in the period from January 2021 to December 2021 to participate in the study. They will be questioned about the selection criteria, and if they are eligible to be included in the study, they will be provided with the informed consent letter for reading, clarification of doubts and signature. Each participant will receive a copy of the informed consent letter.
Participants will be questioned directly to obtain information about their general data, medical history and about their drug treatment for hypertension. The rest of the data (admission diagnosis, drugs administered during their hospital stay, etc.) will be obtained from the clinical record, as well as the blood pressure measurements on admission, during their hospital stay and upon discharge. The analysis of the theoretical pharmacological interactions and their classification will be carried out prior to feeding the database using the IBM Micromedex Drug Interactions and iDoctus Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS).
The information obtained will be emptied into an Excel database for subsequent statistical analysis with the SPSS 21 program. The study information will remain confidential under the responsibility of the responsible researcher. As a protection measure on the information collected for the investigation, the personal identification data will be substituted by folio numbers.
