Inadequate Management of Blood Pressure in a Hypertensive Population

Although hypertension is among the most common reasons for an outpatient medical visit, 1 many patients with established hypertension have poorly controlled blood pressure. 2 For example, in the 1988–1991 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), only 24 percent of the patients...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 1998-12, Vol.339 (27), p.1957-1963
Hauptverfasser:	Berlowitz, Dan R, Ash, Arlene S, Hickey, Elaine C, Friedman, Robert H, Glickman, Mark, Kader, Boris, Moskowitz, Mark A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Ambulatory care Ambulatory Care - standards Arterial hypertension. Arterial hypotension Biological and medical sciences Blood and lymphatic vessels Blood Pressure Cardiology. Vascular system Clinical manifestations. Epidemiology. Investigative techniques. Etiology Clinics Comorbidity Decision Support Techniques Health Services Research Hospitals Hospitals, Veterans Humans Hypertension - drug therapy Hypertension - physiopathology Male Medical sciences Office Visits - statistics & numerical data Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) Outpatient Clinics, Hospital Patients Physicians Probability Random Allocation United States
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Zusammenfassung:	Although hypertension is among the most common reasons for an outpatient medical visit, 1 many patients with established hypertension have poorly controlled blood pressure. 2 For example, in the 1988–1991 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), only 24 percent of the patients with a diagnosis of hypertension had blood pressures of
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJM199812313392701