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Federal Bureau of Prisons Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hypertension
Publication year:
2004
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Recommended standards for the medical management of federal inmates with hypertension are discussed. Procedures covered by this document include diagnosis, classification, baseline evaluation, periodic evaluations, treatment, treatment follow-up, evaluation of treatment failure, hypertensive crisis, documentation, and inmate education. Appendixes look at: drug treatment considerations; treatment strategies; causes of treatment failure; Hypertension Patient Education Program; fact sheet for inmates; patient knowledge assessment; and continuing medical education -- hypertension.