HEARTS in the Americas appraisal checklist and clinical pathway for comprehensive hypertension management in primary care
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the Region of the Americas, and hypertension represents its main risk factor. However, population hypertension control rates in the Region are poor. Global Hearts is the World Health Organization's flagship initiative t...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e3bd358d8f044e519b61a88c8ae43980 2023-05-15T15:09:03+02:00 HEARTS in the Americas appraisal checklist and clinical pathway for comprehensive hypertension management in primary care Andres Rosende Donald DiPette Jeffrey Brettler Gonzalo Rodríguez Eric Zuniga Kenneth Connell Pedro Ordunez 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.125 https://doaj.org/article/e3bd358d8f044e519b61a88c8ae43980 EN ES PT eng spa por Pan American Health Organization https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/56271 https://doaj.org/toc/1020-4989 https://doaj.org/toc/1680-5348 1020-4989 1680-5348 doi:10.26633/RPSP.2022.125 https://doaj.org/article/e3bd358d8f044e519b61a88c8ae43980 Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 46, Iss 125, Pp 1-7 (2022) cardiovascular diseases hypertension practice guideline clinical protocols critical pathways public health americas Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2022.125 2022-12-30T20:34:49Z Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the Region of the Americas, and hypertension represents its main risk factor. However, population hypertension control rates in the Region are poor. Global Hearts is the World Health Organization's flagship initiative to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases. HEARTS in the Americas Initiative is its regional adaptation that seeks to be the cardiovascular disease risk management model, including hypertension and diabetes, in primary health care throughout the Americas by 2025. HEARTS in the Americas is being implemented in 22 countries and over 2 095 primary care centers. All implementing countries have defined their treatment protocols, and HEARTS in the Americas has supported continuous improvement. Because WHO recently released the 2021 Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and HEARTS in the Americas introduced the key drivers for hypertension control, the initiative generated a methodology to help countries update and strengthen their treatment protocols. This article describes the process of developing the treatment protocol appraisal checklist and defines the resulting clinical pathway. This tool can help countries and primary care centers to improve their protocols by identifying the improvement points and upgrading clinical pathways. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 46 1 |
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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the Region of the Americas, and hypertension represents its main risk factor. However, population hypertension control rates in the Region are poor. Global Hearts is the World Health Organization's flagship initiative to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases. HEARTS in the Americas Initiative is its regional adaptation that seeks to be the cardiovascular disease risk management model, including hypertension and diabetes, in primary health care throughout the Americas by 2025. HEARTS in the Americas is being implemented in 22 countries and over 2 095 primary care centers. All implementing countries have defined their treatment protocols, and HEARTS in the Americas has supported continuous improvement. Because WHO recently released the 2021 Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and HEARTS in the Americas introduced the key drivers for hypertension control, the initiative generated a methodology to help countries update and strengthen their treatment protocols. This article describes the process of developing the treatment protocol appraisal checklist and defines the resulting clinical pathway. This tool can help countries and primary care centers to improve their protocols by identifying the improvement points and upgrading clinical pathways. |
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HEARTS in the Americas appraisal checklist and clinical pathway for comprehensive hypertension management in primary care |
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