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  • Title: Management of high blood pressure in clinical practice: perceptible qualitative differences in approaches utilized by clinicians.
    Author: Nwachuku CE, Bastien A, Cutler JA, Grob GM, Margolis KL, Roccella EJ, Pressel S, Davis BR, Caso M, Sheps S, Weber M.
    Journal: J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich); 2008 Nov; 10(11):822-9. PubMed ID: 19128270.
    Abstract:
    The authors recruited a group of physicians from among the investigators participating in the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) with a greater (more successful) or lesser (less successful) proportion of trial patients meeting blood pressure (BP) control goals. The authors utilized qualitative focus group methods to identify similarities and differences in practice behaviors. Successful and less successful physicians had similarities in knowledge and practice behaviors regarding awareness of treatment guidelines, approaches to diagnosis, use of pharmacologic management, and the opinion that systolic BP guidelines should consider a patient's age. However, there were discernible differences between the two physician groups in their views on doctor-patient relationships: physicians from the less successful group were more paternalistic with their patients, while physicians from the more successful group were more likely to use a patient-centered clinical approach to BP awareness and management.
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