Hypertension guidelines on WIHI

Madge Kaplan writes:The next WIHI broadcast — How High? How Low? Shared Decision Making Amidst Shifting (Hypertension) Guidelines — will take place on Thursday, March 13, from 2 to 3 PM ET, and I hope you'll tune in. This is a special collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association that we're calling JAMA on WIHI: An Online Audio Forum on Quality.Our guests will include:Craig W. Robbins, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Center for Clinical Information Services, Kaiser Permanente Care Management InstituteDon Goldmann, MD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare ImprovementPeter Basch, MD, FACP, Medical Director, Ambulatory EHR and Health IT Policy, Medstar HealthEric Peterson, MD, MPH, Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute; Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center Hypertension is a hot issue, especially in the US, where an expert committee recently recommended that the available evidence does not support initiating treatment (largely medication) for people 60 years or older until their blood pressure climbs to 150 over 90. The decades-long consensus had been to initiate treatment at 140 over 90, which is still the recommendation for adults younger than 60. The reasons for this change are possibly as complicated as the guideline process itself, but one of the chief concerns of the majority on the Eighth Joint National Committee (“JNC 8”) is the r...
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