Consistency of Recommendations for Evaluation and Management of Hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hypertension is very common, but guideline recommendations for hypertension have been controversial, are of increasing interest, and have profound implications.

Objective

To systematically assess the consistency of recommendations regarding hypertension management across clinical practice guidelines (CPGs).

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of hypertension management recommendations included CPGs that had been published as of April 2018. Two point-of-care resources that provided graded recommendations were included for secondary analyses. Discrete and unambiguous specifications of the population, intervention, and comparison states were used to define a series of reference recommendations. Three raters reached consensus on coding

SUBMITTER: Alper BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902818 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature