Intensification of older adults' outpatient blood pressure treatment at hospital discharge: national retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess how often older adults admitted to hospital for common non-cardiac conditions were discharged with intensified antihypertensive treatment, and to identify markers of appropriateness for these intensifications.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

US Veterans Administration Health System.

Participants

Patients aged 65 years or over with hypertension admitted to hospital with non-cardiac conditions between 2011 and 2013.

Main outcome measures

Intensification of antihypertensive treatment, defined as receiving a new or higher dose antihypertensive agent at discharge compared with drugs used before admission. Hierarchical logistic regression analyses were used to control for characteristics of patients and hospitals.

Results

SUBMITTER: Anderson TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283373 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature