Investigation of hypertension in general practice.
The responsibility for identifying the hypertensive patients in the community and supervising their long term management is clearly the domain of the general practitioner. Having once decided that a patient's blood pressure warrants lowering, it is necessary that some form of routine investigation be carried out before treatment is started. A simplified approach to the investigation, collection and recording of the relevant data in these patients is outlined.
D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008499:Medical Records