Maintenance of Certification Part IV Quality-Improvement Project for Hypertension Control: A Preliminary Retrospective Analysis.

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Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center; Director of Medical Education for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, in Denver, CO; and Senior Advisor of Clinical Education for The Permanente Federation in Oakland, CA.

Published: January 2016

Fifty-two American Board of Family Medicine and 19 American Board of Internal Medicine certified physicians completed projects to increase the percentage of hypertensive patients on their patient panels who had controlled blood pressure. Mean panel blood pressure control improved from 79.49% to 84.64%. The choice of improvement option was not associated with the level of improvement or with the participant's perception of the workload related to completing the project.

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