Nurse management for hypertension. A systems approach. | Zendy

Peter Rudd | Zendy; Nancy Houston-Miller | Zendy; J. H. Kaufman | Zendy; H KRAEMER | Zendy; A. Bandura | Zendy; George Greenwald | Zendy; Robert F. DeBusk | Zendy

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Nurse management for hypertension. A systems approach.

Author(s) -

Peter Rudd,

Nancy Houston-Miller,

J. H. Kaufman,

H KRAEMER,

A. Bandura,

George Greenwald,

Robert F. DeBusk

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.06.006

Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , adverse effect , pharmacotherapy , randomized controlled trial , antihypertensive drug , cardiovascular event , emergency medicine , disease

Standard office-based approaches to controlling hypertension show limited success. Such suboptimal hypertension control reflects in part the absence of both an infrastructure for patient education and frequent, regular blood pressure (BP) monitoring. We tested the efficacy of a physician-directed, nurse-managed, home-based system for hypertension management with standardized algorithms to modulate drug therapy, based on patients' reports of home BP.

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