PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Robert C. Dickson
AU  - Kathryn Gaebel
AU  - Angelo Zizzo
AU  - Ieva Neimanis
AU  - Margaret Bridge
AU  - John Corsini
AU  - Cindy Goebel
AU  - Richard Levy
AU  - Anne Woods
TI  - Self-Reported Physician Adherence to Guidelines for Measuring Blood Pressure
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.120024
DP  - 2013 Mar 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 215--217
VI  - 26
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/26/2/215.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/26/2/215.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2013 Mar 01; 26
AB  - Background: Diagnosis of hypertension, treatment, and follow-up depend on accurate measurement. This research study attempted to determine whether family physicians are all measuring blood pressure (BP) according to Canadian guidelines. Methods: A short survey was mailed to all physicians within the Department of Family Medicine, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Results: Fifty-one percent of the surveys were completed and returned. Eleven of the recommendations were followed “always or most of the time.” BP is measured manually by 63% of the respondents, and the most frequent barrier to following the recommendations was time. Conclusion: The results of the survey indicated that measurement of BP according to Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations was felt to be important and conducted in most cases, but there is room for improvement.