Primary care clinician education interventions for improving blood pressure control for people prescribed antihypertensive treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Half of people treated for hypertension are not controlled to target; clinician education may improve effective antihypertensive use.

Objectives

To systematically review and synthesise evidence from 2010 to 2024 on primary care clinician education interventions for improving blood pressure (BP) control in people on antihypertensive treatment.

Design

Systematic literature review.

Data sources

MEDLINE, Embase and CINAHL were searched in January 2024.

Setting

Primary care.

Participants

Primary care clinicians and patients with hypertension.

Interventions

Randomised controlled trials from 2010 to 2024 of clinician education interventions, based in primary care and reporting BP change pre-intervention versus post-intervention, were

SUBMITTER: Althuwaikh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12406872 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature