Use of strategies to improve antihypertensive medication adherence within United States outpatient health care practices, DocStyles 2015-2016.

ABSTRACT: Patients' adherence to antihypertensive medications is key to controlling high blood pressure. Evidence-based strategies to improve adherence exist, but their use, individually and in combination, has not been described. 2015-2016 DocStyles data were analyzed to describe health care professionals' and their practices' use of 10 strategies to improve antihypertensive medication adherence across 3 categories: prescribing, education, and tracking/encouragement. Among 1590 respondents, a mean of using 5 strategies was reported, with individual strategy use ranging from 17.2% (providing patients adherence-related rewards) to 69.4% (prescribing once-daily regimens). Those with higher odds of using ≥7 strategies and strategies across all 3 categories included: (1) nurse practitioners compared to

SUBMITTER: Chang TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8030855 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature