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Clinical Outcomes After Intensifying Antihypertensive Medication Regimens Among Older Adults at Hospital Discharge
Author(s) -
Timothy S. Anderson,
Bocheng Jing,
Andrew D. Auerbach,
Charlie M. Wray,
Sei Lee,
W. John Boscardin,
Kathy Fung,
Sarah Ngo,
Molly Silvestrini,
Michael A. Steinman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jama internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14
H-Index - 342
eISSN - 2168-6114
pISSN - 2168-6106
DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3007
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , propensity score matching , cohort , retrospective cohort study , blood pressure , medical prescription , cohort study , adverse effect , emergency medicine , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , pharmacology
Transient elevations of blood pressure (BP) are common in hospitalized older adults and frequently lead practitioners to prescribe more intensive antihypertensive regimens at hospital discharge than the patients were using before hospitalization.

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