Practice-based approaches including culturally appropriate patient education, home blood pressure monitoring, and team-based care can improve hypertension control in African Americans.
Do practice-based interventions improve blood pressure control in African American patients with hypertension?
Culturally tailored patient education, home monitoring, and multidisciplinary team-based care are key strategies to address the disparately high rates of uncontrolled hypertension in African Americans.
Barriers to blood pressure control exist at the patient, physician, and system levels. We review the current evidence for interventions that target patient- and physician-related barriers, such as patient education, home blood pressure monitoring, and computerized decision-support systems for physicians, and we emphasize the need for more studies that address the effectiveness of these interventions in African American patients.
Odedosu et al. (Sun,) conducted a review in Hypertension. Practice-based approaches (patient education, home monitoring, behavioral counseling, decision-support systems) vs. Usual care was evaluated. Practice-based approaches including culturally appropriate patient education, home blood pressure monitoring, and team-based care can improve hypertension control in African Americans.
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