Adult Hypertension Survey Results Mercy Medical Group, Inc. Alan R. Ertle, MD, MPH, MBA Friday, January 09, 2015
29 Total Responses Survey Created: Friday, December 05, 2014
Q1: For adults younger than the age of 60 years old, what is the appropriate target for HTN control? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q2: For patients 60 to 79 years old, what is the treatment goal for HTN control? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q3: For patients 80 years of age and older, what is the treatment goal for HTN control? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q4: What percentage of your patients in each age group do you estimate have appropriate blood pressure control? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0 75% NA
Q4: What percentage of your patients in each age group do you estimate have appropriate blood pressure control? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q5: What lifestyle changes do you recommend for your hypertensive patients? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q6: What proportion of patients are able to control their hypertension to recommended levels with lifestyle changes alone? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q7: What are your first-line antihypertensive agents for non-African American people who are under 60 years of age? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q8: What are your first-line antihypertensive agents for African American people under the age of 60? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q9: What are your second-line antihypertensive agents ? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q10: What are your third-line antihypertensive agents? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q11: What combination antihypertensives do you regularly use? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q12: What percentage of your patients are on combination therapy for hypertension? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q13: Do you normally recommend that patients acquire a home blood pressure monitoring device? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q14: What percentage of patients you have do you think have a home blood pressure monitoring device? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q15: Of those patients with a home blood pressure monitoring device, what percentage do you feel use it regularly? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q16: Have you heard of the "Measure up/Pressure down" campaign? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q17: Have you heard of the "Million Hearts" campaign? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q18: What are the biggest impediments to achieving blood pressure control in those patients who are not controlled? You may choose more than one. Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q18: What are the biggest impediments to achieving blood pressure control in those patients who are not controlled? You may choose more than one. Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q19: Do you feel the medical assistants at MMG have the training and experience to consistently measure blood pressure accurately? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q20: Do you feel that a better approach to achieving excellent blood pressure control for our primary care population might be a more "coumadin-clinic/protocol-driven" type of approach? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q21: Do you feel you have enough knowledge and training to care of the majority of your hypertensive patients? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q24: On a day-to-day basis in the care of your hypertensive patients, for what percentage of patients do you refer to the hypertension guideline or protocol? Answered: 29 Skipped: 0
Q 25: If you use a treatment guideline (or protocol) for hypertension, which guideline do most often use? JNC 9/15 AHA 2/15 ACP 2/15 Unk. 2/15
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