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ReviewJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2010

ASH position paper: Adherence and persistence with taking medication to control high blood pressure.

Martha N Hill, Nancy H Miller, Sabina DeGeest, American Society of Hypertension Writing Group

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Review in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Reinforcing adherence to antihypertensive medications.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2015
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  12. Multilevel factors are associated with immunosuppressant nonadherence in heart transplant recipients: The international BRIGHT study.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2018
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  13. Treatment Intensification for Hypertension in US Ambulatory Medical Care.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Martha N HillJohns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA. mnhill@son.jhmi.edu
Nancy H Miller
Sabina DeGeest
American Society of Hypertension Writing Group
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USJohns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonadherence and poor or no persistence in taking antihypertensive medications results in uncontrolled high blood pressure, poor clinical outcomes, and preventable health care costs. Factors associated with nonadherence are multilevel and relate not only to the patient, but also to the provider, health care system, health care organization, and community. National guideline committees have called for more aggressive approaches to implement strategies known to improve adherence and technologies known to enable changes at the systems level, including improved communication among providers and patients. Improvements in adherence and persistence are likely to be achieved by supporting patient self-management, a team approach to patient care, technology-supported office practice systems, better methods to measure adherence, and less clinical inertia. Integrating high blood pressure control into health care policies that emphasize and improve prevention and management of chronic illness remains a challenge. Four strategies are proposed: focusing on clinical outcomes; empowering informed, activated patients; developing prepared proactive practice teams; and advocating for health care policy reform. With hypertension remaining the most common reason for office visits, the time is now.

Indexed as

Medication AdherenceSocieties, MedicalAntihypertensive AgentsBlood PressureHealth PolicyHumansHypertensionRisk FactorsTime FactorsUnited StatesAntihypertensive Agents

Identifiers

PMID21029338
PMCPMC8673243
OpenAlexW2060589766

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