PMID: 11930402Apr 5, 2002Paper

Hypertension outcomes in an urban nurse-managed center

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
R BenkertM Poole

Abstract

To assess the quality of hypertension (HTN) care in an urban nurse-managed center (NMC) by chart audits of insured and uninsured (N = 52) African Americans who were managed by nurse practitioners. A chart audit form was developed by the authors that merged Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) criteria with the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC VI) criteria. There was near comparable hypertension control among the two groups. No difference was found in systolic blood pressure (BP) control; however, the uninsured group had a slightly greater average diastolic BP compared with the insured group. There was no significant difference in the number of HTN medications or the number of risk factors. A significant difference was found in the number of NP visits per year between the two groups; the uninsured group averaged 3.2 more visits per year. Nurse practitioners in this NMC were able to manage HTN in a high-risk population despite a lack of insurance coverage for anti-hypertensive prescriptions. The finding that the uninsured group had more clinic visits per year than the insured group is significant in that it increases the cost of providing care for these ...Continue Reading

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