Characteristics of Health Care Practices and Systems That Excel in Hypertension Control

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Young, An ; Ritchey, Matthew D. ; George, Mary G. ; Hannan, Judy ; Wright, Janet
• Description:
  Approximately 1 in 3 US adults has hypertension, but only half have their blood pressure controlled. We identified characteristics of health care practices and systems (hereinafter practices) effective in achieving control rates at or above 70% by using data collected via applications submitted from April through June 2017 for consideration in the Million Hearts Hypertension Control Challenge. We included 96 practices serving 635,000 patients with hypertension across 34 US states in the analysis. Mean hypertension control rate was 77.1%; 27.1% of practices had a control rate of 80% or greater. Although many practices served large populations with multiple risk factors for uncontrolled hypertension, high control rates were achieved with implementation of evidenced-based strategies.
• Subjects:
  Antihypertensive Agents Blood Pressure Blood Pressure Determination Brief Delivery Of Health Care Electronic Health Records Humans Hypertension Practice Patterns, Physicians' Prevalence Rural Population Urban Population

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• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 15.
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  29885674
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6016404
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  15
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c0b6f3bb8ca3bbedff21b3089fbe3d04586c5d6fa401cf503ff70176082918887a1ed320a0b5ecf4cf4e907362e5a4861ad74d6def704b7ac01309adcbe04bf
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/56696/cdc_56696_DS1.pdf
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