High Blood Pressure Care and Control in Greater Cleveland

Community Checkup Report: How are doctors and patients doing?

We're off to a promising start in looking at this important condition.

This is our first Community Health Checkup report on high blood pressure, which is also called hypertension. Here, we report the achievement in 2009 of 39 practices in seven of our partner health systems, including a total of nearly 350 primary care physicians, and almost 98,000 patients with high blood pressure.

According to our high blood pressure measures, more than four out of five patients (82%) with high blood pressure received appropriate care in 2009, while just over two out of three patients (68%) managed to keep their blood pressure at the goal of 140/90 or lower in 2009.

As with diabetes and heart failure, we continue to look for possible differences in high blood pressure care and in control of blood pressure according to insurance, race/ethnicity, income and education. To explore these differences, use the sorting feature next to the graphs on the bottom of this page.

Region-Wide Achievement,
All Patients

Region-Wide Achievement,
All Patients Each number represents the percentage of patients meeting the listed standard

	This Checkup (2009)
Good Blood Pressure Control (Percentage of Patients with BP below 140/90)	68%
Care Processes (Percentage of Patients Meeting All 3 Standards)	82%
Blood Pressure Measured (BP measured at every visit)	99%
Cholesterol Measured (High LDL ["bad"] cholesterol raises heart attack risk)	94%
Kidney Function Measured (Yearly blood test to check for kidney damage)	87%

Regional Achievement for High Blood Pressure

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