[Non-pharmacological intervention as a strategy to improve antihypertensive treatment compliance].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of an intervention by means of an educational magazine on treatment compliance in uncontrolled arterial hypertension (AHT).

Design: Controlled, randomised clinical trial.

Setting: 87 primary care centres.

[Control of therapeutic inertia in the treatment of arterial hypertension by using different strategies].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of different interventions on therapeutic Inertia (TI) in mild-to-moderate hypertension (AHT).

Design: Controlled, randomised clinical trial.

Setting: Two hundred clinics in 5 primary care centres.

[Analysis of studies published on hypertension treatment non-compliance in Spain between 1984 and 2005].

Objective: To analyse therapy non-compliance in hypertension treatment in Spain, after a review of studies published between 1984 and 2005.

Design: Systematic review.

Data Sources: Data searches used Internet (Medline and Spanish index on doctoral these), a manual search of several Spanish journals, and bibliographic references to compliance from detected articles and through personal contact with experts.

Efficacy of telephone and mail intervention in patient compliance with antihypertensive drugs in hypertension. ETECUM-HTA study.

Objective: To study the efficacy of telephone and mail intervention in therapeutic compliance among patients with mild to moderate hypertension.

Design: A prospective controlled multicenter clinical trial.

Setting: Eighty-five primary care centers in Spain, with a duration of 6 months.