What’s New In Hypertension Since The JNC 7 Guidelines

This activity is an archive of the live session held at the 2009 Fall Managed Care Forum. If you participated in the live activity, you are not eligible for continuing education credits from this archive.

This activity is valid from March 1, 2010 to March 1, 2011

 

Audience: This activity is intended for healthcare professionals practicing in managed care environments.

This activity is supported by an educational grant from
TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS NORTH AMERICA, INC

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Description
Hypertension continues to be a leading health problem, not only in sheer numbers of affected individuals but because more than 70% of people who receive care do not achieve adequate blood pressure control. How can clinicians do better in helping their patients achieve better control of hypertension? This session will look at what the guidelines have to say and opportunities for improved outcomes.

Goal
The goal of this activity is to provide medical directors from plans, purchasers and provider systems and nurse case managers with appropriate education on Hypertension and its impact on managed care environments. Participants will be able to:
  • Understand the scope of the hypertension problem, evidence for BP control, goals for BP control, and improving BP control rates

  • Understand the reasoning for supporting self-monitored home BP measurement

  • Understand the barriers toward more effective BP control, including those that involve the Health Care Provider, Patient, and Payer (Health Care System), with special emphasis on the role of the provider and the importance of Clinical Inertia

  • Understand the newer BP trials since JNC 7 and their clinical implications on the treatment of hypertension

Faculty: Jan Basile, MD   Professor of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
   

Disclosure:

Grant/Research support: AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis
Speakers Bureau: Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Forest, GSK, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Inc., Daiichi-Sankyo
  The NAMCP planning committee has no real or perceived financial relationships to disclose.

Accreditation & Designation
The National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. NAMCP designates this activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category I creditsTM. Each physician should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The American Association of Managed Care Nurses (AAMCN) has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the Virginia Nurses Association (VNA). VNA is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who complete this activity will be awarded 1.0 contact hours.

This activity has been approved by the American Board of Managed Care Nursing for 1.0 contact hours toward CMCN recertification requirements.

  

This activity is supported by an educational grant from
TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS NORTH AMERICA, INC