Clinical Guidance
Treatment and Management Recommendations
Blood Pressure Targets in Adults with Hypertension: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the AAFP
Managing Your Practice
Coding & Payment: How to Support Chronic Care Management Services
AAFP Chronic Care Management Toolkit
Coordinated Care and Care Management Tools and Resources
Coding for Hypertension: Painting a Picture of the Severity of Illness
Controlling Hypertension: Focusing on “Why” Makes “How” a Lot Easier
Implementing Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Primary Care Practice
Quality Measures: Identify Opportunities to Improve Patient Care
The AAFP in conjunction with the Core Quality Measure Collaborative promotes measure harmonization across programs and payers. Listed here are the measures currently selected by the CQMC ACO/PCMH/Primary Care Workgroup to evaluate hypertension in the primary care setting.
| Hypertension Quality Measures | |||
| NQF # 0018 | Controlling High Blood Pressure |
National Committee for Quality Assurance | eCQM available* Telehealth eligible |
| NQF # 0061 | Comprehensive Diabetes Care: Blood Pressure Control (<140/90 mm Hg) | National Committee for Quality Assurance |
eCQM available* Telehealth eligible
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Implementation Tools and Considerations
AAFP TIPS: Quality Improvement
Train your team on the benefits, concepts, and steps of the quality improvement process to enhance the care you provide. Includes two online learning courses, three customizable slide decks, and six downloadable tools. CME: 1 AAFP Prescribed credit; Free to members.
Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into Family Practice
Lifestyle medicine focuses on five main domains: connectedness, movement, nutrition, recovery, and substance use. When addressing all domains together, lifestyle medicine can address multiple chronic diseases simultaneously.
AAFP Clinical Practice Guideline: Blood Pressure Targets in Adults with Hypertension (Nov. 14, 2022)
The AAFP strongly recommends clinicians treat adults who have hypertension to a standard blood pressure target (less than 140/90 mm Hg)
to reduce the risk of all cause and cardiovascular mortality.
Education
Clinican Education
Continuing Medical Education
View applicable courses in:
AAFP CME Hypertension
AFP Journal
AFP By Topic: Hypertension
Related Resources
References
* Forouzanfar MH, Liu P, Roth GA, et al. Global burden of hypertension and systolic blood pressure of at least 110 to 115mmHg, 1990-2015. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association. 2017;317(2):165-182. doi:10.1001/JAMA.2016.19043
** Muntner P, Carey RM, Gidding S, et al. Potential US Population Impact of the 2017 ACC/AHA High Blood Pressure Guideline. Circulation. 2018;137(2):109-118. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.032582
*** Kirkland EB, Heincelman M, Bishu KG, et al. Trends in Healthcare Expenditures Among US Adults With Hypertension: National Estimates, 2003-2014. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2018;7(11). doi:10.1161/JAHA.118.008731
**** Coles, S, Fisher L, Lin K, Lyon C, Vosooney A, Bird MD. Blood Pressure Targets in Adults with Hypertension: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American Academy of Family Physicians. American Family Physician. November 14, 2022. Accessed November 15, 2022. https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/journals/afp/AAFPHypertensionGuideline.pdf