Team-based Care Improves Blood Pressure Control and is Cost-effective

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends team-based care to improve patients’ blood pressure. A systematic review of evidence shows team-based care increases the proportion of patients with controlled blood pressure and reduces systolic and diastolic blood pressure. A separate review of economic evidence indicates team-based care is also cost-effective. These findings update and replace the 2012 CPSTF recommendation for team-based care.

Why is this important?

High blood pressure increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of death for Americans.¹
Nearly half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, and only about 1 in 4 (24%) have it under control.²

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NEW! @CPSTF recommends team-based care to improve patients’ blood pressure based on updated evidence and finds the intervention approach is cost-effective. #HeartHealth #TheCommunityGuide https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/heart-disease-stroke-prevention-team-based-care-improve-blood-pressure-control
Evidence from an updated systematic review supports the use of team-based care that engages #pharmacists and #nurses to improve patients’ blood pressure. Economic evidence shows the intervention is also cost-effective. #HeartHealth #TheCommunityGuide https://www.thecommunityguide.org/content/team-based-care-improves-blood-pressure-control-and-cost-effective
Looking to improve patients’ blood pressure control? @CPSTF recommends team-based care following an updated systematic review. Economic evidence shows the intervention is also cost-effective! #HeartHealth #TheCommunityGuide https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/heart-disease-stroke-prevention-team-based-care-improve-blood-pressure-control
Want to help patients get their blood pressure under control? Engage #pharmacists, #nurses, and other health professionals in team-based care. Updated evidence from #TheCommunityGuide shows this approach works and is cost-effective. #HeartHealth https://www.thecommunityguide.org/content/team-based-care-improves-blood-pressure-control-and-cost-effective

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The Community Guide

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a website that is a collection of all the evidence-based findings and recommendations of the Community Preventive Services Task Force.

References

¹ Kochanek KD, Murphy SL, Xu J, Arias E. Deaths: Final Data for 2017. National Vital Statistics Reports, 2019;68(9):1-77. Hyattsville (MD): National Center for Health Statistics.

² CDC. Hypertension Cascade: Hypertension Prevalence, Treatment and Control Estimates Among US Adults Aged 18 Years and Older Applying the Criteria From the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association’s 2017 Hypertension Guideline—NHANES 2015–2018. Atlanta (GA): US Department of Health and Human Services; 2019. Available from URL: https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/data-reports/hypertension-prevalence.html

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