Table 3.
Study Used to Answer Clinical Question 3
| Underlying disease |
Study design |
Study | n | Country | Intervention | Duration (months) |
Comparison | Population | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypertension | Comparative | Yamagishi et al22 |
193 | Japan | Counseling guidance program |
9 | Full-intervention vs. minimal- intervention communities |
Hypertension patients in Akita Prefecture, Japan |
The prevalence and incidence of stroke were consistently lower in the full- than minimal- intervention community throughout the same time period |
| The incremental cost was −JPY28,358 per capita over 24 years | |||||||||
| Budget impact: cost of public health services per capita, 4,741 JPY/year; cost of hypertension treatment per capita, −7,126 JPY/year; cost of stroke treatment per capita, −2,500 JPY/year; total cost per capita, −4,884 JPY/year |