Despite multiple available effective therapies for hypertension, many patients with high blood pressure in the United States are not adequately controlled. This inability to effectively manage hypertension can be attributed to patient, provider, and system failures. To create an effective model for hypertension management, current care delivery systems must be reorganized around the following principles: improved patient engagement and patient-provider communication, increased use of nonphysician providers, better performance monitoring and feedback systems, and better aligned reimbursement models. Transformation of care around these principles would lead to marked improvements in cost, quality, and access to care.
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Front Public Health
January 2025
Department of Health Care Management, School of Information and Management, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
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Department of Radiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510151, Guangdong Province, China.
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Aim: To develop a machine learning (ML) model to predict OHE occurrence post-TIPS in patients with AVB using a 5-year dataset.
Transplant Direct
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Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson and Johnson, Global Epidemiology, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Background: Portopulmonary hypertension (PoPH) occurs in patients with advanced liver disease and can be a contraindication to liver transplant (LT). Improvement of hemodynamic parameters with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapies (including endothelin receptor antagonists [ERAs]) may help some patients to become eligible for LT.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective secondary data analysis to describe the clinical course and management of PoPH in patients on a US registry LT waitlist and outcomes in patients receiving an ERA.
Malawi Med J
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Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Ilorin and University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.
Background: Patient satisfaction is an important indicator used to measure quality of care and the performance of healthcare services. This study assessed patient satisfaction with the quality of hypertension care received by both insured and uninsured patients with systemic hypertension.
Methods: This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among insured and uninsured patients with systemic hypertension attending the Medical Outpatient Department clinics of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State, Nigeria, from May to July, 2023.
Diabetol Int
January 2025
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-Oka, Suita City, Osaka 565-0871 Japan.
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