Treatment intensification in a hypertension telemanagement trial: Clinical inertia or good clinical judgment?

Hypertension

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 552-558

  Crowley, Matthew J ^a,b   Smith, Valerie A ^a   Olsen, Maren K ^a,c   Danus, Susanne ^a   Oddone, Eugene Z ^a,b   Bosworth, Hayden B ^a,b,d   Powers, Benjamin J ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Divisions of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism ^*  (United States)

^c Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure telemonitoring; clinical inertia; hypertension; medical decision making; treatment intensification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL INERTIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMONITORING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JUDGMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053526029     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.174367     Document Type: Article

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