Hypertension in health care providers: Effectiveness of worksite treatment programs in a state mental health agency

L. Baer, Y. Parchment and M. Kneeshaw

American Journal of Public Health, 1981, vol. 71, issue 11, 1261-1263

Abstract: Twenty-seven per cent of 6,785 employees of the Office of Mental Health, New York State, had blood pressure ≥ 140/90; 66 per cent were previously known hypertensives. Treatment of hypertension was initiated at three worksites by a nurse-physician team using a stepped-care drug protocol. Of 232 patients under treatment, 67 per cent (156) have diastolic blood pressure controlled to less than 95 mmHg. Mean length of follow-up at the first established worksite was 3.7 ± 0.4 years and at all three worksites 13.5 months.

Date: 1981
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