Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-11T14:06:19 RDF description of Management of high blood pressure in clinical practice: perceptible qualitative differences in approaches utilized by clinicians - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18946 Management of high blood pressure in clinical practice: perceptible qualitative differences in approaches utilized by clinicians Comparative Studies 11 Physician's Practice Patterns 24730 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 <p>The authors recruited a group of physicians from among the investigators participating in the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) with a greater (more successful) or lesser (less successful) proportion of trial patients meeting blood pressure (BP) control goals. The authors utilized qualitative focus group methods to identify similarities and differences in practice behaviors. Successful and less successful physicians had similarities in knowledge and practice behaviors regarding awareness of treatment guidelines, approaches to diagnosis, use of pharmacologic management, and the opinion that systolic BP guidelines should consider a patient's age. However, there were discernible differences between the two physician groups in their views on doctor-patient relationships: physicians from the less successful group were more paternalistic with their patients, while physicians from the more successful group were more likely to use a patient-centered clinical approach to BP awareness and management.<p> Physician-Patient Relations Hypertension Qualitative Studies 15075 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2008.00035.x document-rn18946 public 10 Drugs and Drug Therapy Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)