Retrospective cohort study of a community-based primary care program's effects on pharmacotherapy quality in low-income Peruvians with type 2 diabetes and hypertension

A door-to-door survey was conducted to enumerate all household members by age and sex in a low-income community in Peru. 856 adults 35 years and older were eligible to participate in screening for type 2 diabetes and hypertension. 709 (83%) participated in screening. 130 (18.3%) were diagnosed with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes of which 109 (84%) participated at program onset and 22 were added later from earlier non-participants in screening or program onset to form the cohort of 131 patients with diabetes and/or hypertension. The primary care program had components of the Chronic Care Model, community health workers, and freely accessible visits and medications. The program operated between September 2011 and May 2014, and consisted of two care periods (separated by a six-month hiatus), first a 10-month home-care period, then a 17-month clinic-care period. The dataset is two files corresponding to two exposures: the 27-month program overall (post- versus pre-) (N=262 observations..., From 2011 to 2014, data was collected prospectively, during weekly (home visits) or monthly (clinic visits), on paper encounter forms that were entered into Microsoft Excel as part of the standard operation of the community-based program. In January 2020, the University of Arizona institutional review board approved the use of the de-identified data for a study of the program's effects on clinical outcomes. Time-series data (fasting glucose and blood pressure) was collapsed on the median of monthly average fasting glucose and blood pressure values during the program (27 months) and the respective care periods, home (10 months) and clinic (17 months). Antihypertensive and hypoglycemic agents were collapsed on the highest dose ever received, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and aspirin on whether any dose was ever received, by treatment-eligible groups, and within program and care period time intervals. Retention in care was obtained by counting visits and elapsed months (f..., There are four files (two data and two data dictionaries), all in comma-delimited text format and a README.md file. , # Retrospective cohort study of a community-based primary care program's effects on pharmacotherapy quality in low-income Peruvians with type 2 diabetes and hypertension

There are two data files in text format (comma-delimited). Pre-post....csv contains the 262 observations for the program exposure. Care period....csv contains the 211 care period observations. Each file has a data dictionary, also in comma-delimited non-UTF-8 text format. \"Pre-post data dict....csv\" describes the variables in program exposure study. \"Care period data dict....csv\" describes the variables in the care period exposure study. 
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There are four files (two data and two data dictionaries), all in comma-delimited text format (non-UTF-8) and a README.md file.

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