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Medical decision making in hypertension.
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If clinical decision making in hypertension should be based upon a quantifiable risk, doctors must be provided with more robust tools and the many problems in hypertension management can be transformed into issues that are more clearly and readily understood.Abstract:
Detection, treatment and follow‐up of hypertension require that the physician makes accurate and informed decisions. Most decisions in medicine are complex, have more than one outcome, are generall...read more
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Factors influencing the decision to start drug treatment in hypertension. A questionnaire study comparing general practitioners and hypertension specialists in Denmark.
TL;DR: The results from this study suggest that, in both GPs and specialists, a blood pressure threshold approach to treating hypertension is still dominating.