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ReviewJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)

The hypertension management program: identifying opportunities for improvement.

Susan K Maue, James H Jackson, Bruce A Weiss, Marc L Rivo, Vishu Jhaveri, Barbara Lennert

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Review in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Susan K MaueApplied Health Outcomes, Tampa, FL 33609, USA. smaue@applied-outcomes.com
James H Jackson
Bruce A Weiss
Marc L Rivo
Vishu Jhaveri
Barbara Lennert

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, relatively few programs have been evaluated that were designed to affect the clinical practice patterns of primary care physicians who treat patients with hypertension. In particular, studies that have evaluated blood pressure control as a clinical outcome before and after an intervention are lacking. The Hypertension Management Program, developed by Applied Health Outcomes, is a quality improvement program designed to improve the medical management of hypertension in population-based health care settings. This program is in the process of continuing to collect baseline data from health maintenance organizations, conducting physician-focused interventions designed for improving clinical care, and collecting postintervention data between 6 and 12 months after the intervention is completed to determine its effect. The authors present the rationale for conducting large-scale hypertension management programs that measure outcomes, as well as preliminary baseline and postintervention data from the Hypertension Management Program, based on a current database of more than 1.9 million individuals enrolled in eight health care plans.

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Disease ManagementAdultAgedAge DistributionAntihypertensive AgentsChronic DiseaseFemaleForecastingHumansHypertensionLong-Term CareMaleMiddle AgedPatient Education as TopicPrevalenceProgram EvaluationAntihypertensive Agents

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PMID12826768
PMCPMC8099245

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