Physician-related Barriers to Effective Management

It has been suggested that primary care physicians may not be agressive enought in their management of hypertention. Potential barriers to mthe effective management of hypertention have been identified; these include physician practice patterns, patient management time constrains, drug adverse events, and the complexcity of prescribing and/or monitoring antihypertensive drug regiment.
our finding suggest that a important reason why physicians do not treat hypertention more aggressively is that they are willing to accept an elevated systolic BP in their patients. Our findings seem to suggest that physicians are familiar with the guidelines for treating hypertention but do not implement this knowledge into their everyday practice. this has important publict health impact becouse of the possitive association between systolic BP and cardiovascullar disease. The findings of this study provide useful information for designingeffective physician interventions for the management of patients with uncontrolled hypertention.