Hypertension in the elderly: Attitudes of British patients and general practitioners

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 539-545

  Cranney, M ^a,b   Warren, E ^a   Walley, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Elderly; General practitioners; Hypertension; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE;

EID: 0031659799     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000656     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Insua JT, Sacks H, Lau TS. Drug treatment of hypertension in the elderly: a meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 1994; 121: 355-362.
2. Mulrow CD, Cornell JA, Herrera CR. Hypertension in the elderly. JAMA 1994; 272: 1932-1938.
3. Pearce KA, Furberg CD, Rushing J. Does antihypertensive treatment of the elderly prevent cardiovascular events or prolong life? A meta-analysis of hypertensive treatment trials. Arch Fam Med 1995; 4 Nov: 943-950.
4. Sever P, Beevers G, Bulpitt CJ. Management guidelines in essential hypertension: report of the second working party of the British Hypertension Society. Br Med J 1993; 306: 983-987.
5. Aylett MJ et al. Blood pressure control of drug treated hypertension in 18 general practices. J Hum Hypertens 1996; 10: 547-550.
6. Brock D, Wartman S. When competent patients make irrational choices. N Engl J Med 1990; 322(22): 1595-1599.
7. Forrow L, Wartman SA, Brock DW. Science, ethics, and the making of clinical decisions. JAMA 1988; 259: 3161-3167.
8. Middleton JF. The exceptional potential of the consultation revisited. J Roy Coll Gen Pract 1989; 39: 383-386.
9. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Working Party. From compliance to concordance: achieving shared goals in medicine taking. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 1997.
10. Patton MQ. How to use qualitative methods in evaluation. Sage: London, 1987, pp 108-143.
11. Mavs N, Pope C. Rigour and qualitative research. Br Med J 1995; 311: 109-112.
12. MRC Working Party. Medical Research Council trial of treatment in older adults: principal results. Br Med J 1992; 304: 405-411.
13. Kaplan SH, Greenfield S, Ware JE. Assessing the effects of physician-patient interactions in the outcomes of chronic disease. Med Care 1989; 27 (Suppl): S110-S117.
14. The Royal College of Physicians of London Working Party. Medication for older people. second edition. The Royal College of Physicians of London, 1997.
15. Nease RF, Blair-Brooks W. Patient desire for information and decision making in health care decisions. J Gen Int Med 1995; 10: 593-600.
16. Redelmeier DA, Tversky A. Discrepancy between medical decisions for individual patients and for groups. N Engl J Med 1990; 322(16): 1162-1164.
17. Dickerson JEC, Garratt CJ, Brown MJ. Management of hypertension in general practice: agreements with and variations from the British Hypertension Society guidelines. J Hum Hypertens 1995; 9: 835-839.
18. Beard K et al. Management of elderly patients with sustained hypertension. Br Med J 1992; 304: 412-416.
19. Jackson R, Barham P, Bills J. Management of raised blood pressure in New Zealand: a discussion document. Br Med J 1993; 307: 107-110.
20. Subcommittee of WHO/ISH Mild Hypertension Liaison Committee. Summary of 1993 World Health Organisation-International Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of mild hypertension. Br Med J 1993; 307: 1541-1546.
21. Bennet NE. Hypertension in the elderly. Lancet 1994; 344: 447-449.
22. Fotherby MD, Harper GD, Potter JF. General practitioners' management of hypertension in elderly patients. Br Med J 1992; 305: 750-752.
23. Fahey T, Silagy C. General practitioners' knowledge of and attitudes to the management of hypertension in elderly patients. BJGP 1994; 44: 446-449.
24. Ekpo EB, Shah IU, Fernando MU, White AD. Isolated systolic hypertension in the elderly: survey of practitioners' attitude and management. Gerontology 1993; 39: 207-214.
25. Fahey TP, Peters TJ. A general practice-based study examining the absolute risk of cardiovascular disease in treated hypertensive patients. BJGP 1996; 46: 655-659.
26. Larson MG. Assessment of cardiovascular risk factors in the elderly: the Framingham Heart study. Statistics in Medicine 1995; 14: 1745-1756.
27. Simon JA. Treating hypertension: the evidence from clinical trials. Br Med J 1996; 313: 437.
28. Barton S, Cranney M, Hatcher J, Walley T. The risk of cardiovascular disease in hypertensive patients. BJGP 1997; 47: 182.
29. Cartwright A. Medicine taking by people aged 65 or more. Br Med Bull 1990; 46: 63-76.
30. Fitzpatrick R, Boulton M, Qualitative methods for assessing health care. Quality in health care 1994; 3: 107-113.
31. Green J, Britten N. Qualitative research and evidence based medicine. Br Med J 1998; 316: 1230-1232.
32. Britten N. Qualitative interviews in medical research. Br Med J 1995; 311: 251-253.
33. Robson, J. Information needed to decide about cardiovascular treatment in primary care. Br Med J 1997; 314: 277-280.
34. Cranney M, Walley T. Same information, different decisions: the influence of evidence on the management of hypertension in the elderly. BJGP 1996; 46: 661-663.