Why the study?
Recognition of clinical inertia is essential to improve chronic disease control, but a better interpretation of the concept is lacking due to its high complexity.
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Design
Review of published articles
May support efforts to reduce clinical inertia in hypertension; extends prior definitions but remains hypothesis-generating.
Purpose: Recognition of clinical inertia is essential to improve the control of chronic diseases. Although it is very intuitive, a better interpretation of the concept of clinical inertia is lacking, likely due to its high complexity.Materials and Methods: After a review of the published articles, we propose a practical vision of inertia, contextualized within the clinical process of hypertension care.Results: This new vision enables the integration of previous terms and definitions of clinical inertia, as well as proposing specific strategies for its reduction.Conclusion: Although some concepts should be considered as ‘justified inertia’ or ‘investigator inertia’, the idea that inertia may be present throughout the continuum of care gives physicians a holistic view of the problem that is easily applicable to their clinical practice. Measures to overcome inertia are complicated because of the intrinsic complexity of the concept.
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