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Better blood pressure, no added burden: One practice's story

A Chicago-area physician has achieved a 90 percent control rate for his hypertension patients in the past year by working with his medical assistant, nurse and other staff members to execute standardized blood pressure protocols in the practice.

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How has your practice controlled hypertension? Be recognized

How are you successfully controlling your patients’ hypertension? Share your methods with your fellow physicians as part of the 2014 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge.

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How to help patients manage blood pressure outside office visits

One physician has found how to get patients the extra help they need managing their high blood pressure, both while they’re in the office and through community resources.

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3 steps for acting rapidly to control high blood pressure

Recently, AMA Wire® has focused coverage on how to measure blood pressure accurately, the first action to appropriately managing high blood pressure. Once a patient’s hypertension is confirmed, physicians and their practice staff should act rapidly to help bring that blood pressure under control.

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What doctors are saying about measuring blood pressure accurately

When Wisconsin family medicine physician Kim Hardy, MD, saw this blood pressure chart the AMA posted on Twitter, she knew it was something that could help her practice obtain more accurate blood pressure measurements.

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How your EHR can help get hypertension under control: Study

Applying certain computer-based algorithms to an electronic health record (EHR) system could help identify patients with undiagnosed hypertension, according to a new study in the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.

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How a doctor quickly improved patients' blood pressure readings

Seven seemingly minor factors can artificially inflate patients’ blood pressure measurements. Prevent false readings by monitoring these factors. See how quickly blood pressure readings improve.

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Structured blood pressure management has greater impact: study

Algorithm-based blood pressure interventions, such as a recent primary care hypertension treatment program in Australia, may be effective in helping patients adhere to hypertension treatment, according to a recent study in the Journal of Hypertension.

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Keep a Million Hearts healthy with hypertension resources

Help more Americans get their blood pressure under control with the Million Hearts initiative, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program that aims to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes over five years. 

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