Antihypertensive Medication Prescribing Patterns in a University Teaching Hospital
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Antihypertensive medication prescribing patterns in a university teaching hospital.
Treatment of hypertension among hospitalized patients represents an opportunity to improve blood pressure recognition and treatment. To address this issue, the authors examined patterns of antihypertensive medication prescribing among 5668 hypertensive inpatients. Outcomes were treatment with any antihypertensive medication and treatment with first-line therapy, defined as angiotensin-convertin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1524-6175,1751-7176
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2009.00254.x