Patient-doctor interactions in hypertension.
The interaction between doctors and their hypertensive patients still suffers from a number of shortcomings owing to ignorance and misconceptions on both sides as well as poorly defined mutual goals. In this paper, an attempt is made to define common goals of doctors and patients and to describe the information status of both the patient and the doctor concerning the disease. Problems associated with the management/treatment of hypertension for patient and doctor are addressed, and expectations, attitudes and considerations on 'both sides of the needle' are discussed. Finally, the individual concern of patients and doctors with anti-hypertensive drug treatment is related to frequent problems such as inadequate drug selection on the doctor's side or non-compliance on the patient's side.
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Institut für Pharmakologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations