A narrative review of clinical inertia: focus on hypertension

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-276

  Faria, Claudio ^a   Wenzel, Marie ^a   Lee, Karen W ^a   Coderre, Karen ^a   Nichols, Jake ^a   Belletti, Daniel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; health care; physician inertia; therapeutic inertia

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SKILL;

EID: 67650759695     PISSN: 19331711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2009.03.001     Document Type: Review

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