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Hypertension: Care Management Program And Medication Adherence, Courtney Montgomery
Hypertension: Care Management Program And Medication Adherence, Courtney Montgomery
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Practice Problem: Medication adherence is a major concern in healthcare as it is a contributing factor to uncontrolled hypertension and resistant hypertension. Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, and even death.
PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was in Medicare Advantage members with hypertension located in Kansas, who were admitted to the hospital or emergency room identified by stratification (P), does care management utilization using hypertension clinical guidelines (I), compared to the stand-alone hypertension clinical practice guideline (C), improve medication adherence (O) over 10 weeks (T)?
Evidence: Hypertension is one of the leading preventable …
Hypertension Education To Enhance Health Literacy, Kylee Westrip
Hypertension Education To Enhance Health Literacy, Kylee Westrip
Student Scholarly Projects
Practice Problem: The health of patients suffers greatly when their health literacy is not addressed through evidence-based education material.
PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was, in adult patients with hypertension (P), how does evidence-based education material (I) compared to the current state of verbal instructions provided (C) affect health literacy rates based on the high blood pressure health literacy scale (O) within 12-weeks (T)?
Evidence: The literature evidence revealed three strong themes, which included information on who is most at risk for low health literacy levels, education delivery methods, and specific education to be used.
Intervention: …