Impact of a Shared Medical Appointment on Hypertension Clinical Outcomes and Medication Adherence in a Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are utilized across health care systems to improve access and quality of care, with limited evidence to support the use of SMAs to improve clinical outcomes and medication adherence among hypertensive patients. Improve access and quality of care provided within a Veterans Affairs health care system via implementation of a hypertension SMA to improve clinical outcomes and medication adherence. Veterans were eligible for enrollment in the SMA if they received care within the health care system, were aged ≥18 years, were receiving at least 2 antihypertensive medications, and had systolic blood pressure (SBP) >140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) >90 mm Hg.

Antihypertensive medication adherence and blood pressure control among central Alabama veterans.

Medication nonadherence is associated with adverse outcomes. To evaluate antihypertensive medication adherence and its association with blood pressure (BP) control, the authors described population adherence to prescribed antihypertensive medication (proportion of days covered ≥80%) and BP control (mean BP <140/90 mm Hg) among central Alabama veterans during the fiscal year 2015. Overall, 75.