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Hypertension Control Among Patients Followed by Cardiologists
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 05/17/2012
Navar–Boggan AM et al. – Up to one–third of patients followed routinely by cardiologists in clinic have suboptimally controlled BP, with wide variability in performance across individual clinicians. This variability, alongside evidence that elevated BP is often not acted on during clinic visits, demonstrates a potential opportunity for quality improvement.
