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Federal Bureau of Prisons Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hypertension

Recommended standards for the medical management of federal inmates with hypertension are discussed. Procedures covered by this document include diagnosis, classification, baseline evaluation, periodic evaluations, treatment, treatment follow-up, evaluation of treatment failure, hypertensive crisis, documentation, and inmate education. Appendixes look at: drug treatment considerations; treatment strategies; causes of treatment failure; Hypertension Patient Education Program; fact sheet for inmates; patient knowledge assessment; and continuing medical education -- hypertension. Accession Number: 016557

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