Hospital-based screening, referral, and follow-up program for high blood pressure

V. Theisen, J.R. Caldwell, J.C. Erfurt and A. Foote

American Journal of Public Health, 1979, vol. 69, issue 6, 599-601

Abstract: A hypertension program staffed largely by volunteer nurses in a hospital outpatient department is described. A three-year evaluation shows 19% of 4,282 clients screened as having high readings, 86% of those referred saw a physician for high blood pressure, 92% of those who saw a physician began treatment for high blood pressure, and 50% of those under treatment were showing successful control or progress toward successful control.

Date: 1979
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