[Guideline-adequate knowledge in internists and general practitioners about the diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension] (original) (raw)

Zeitschrift fü Arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung

Abstract

Only a small proportion of patients with arterial hypertension are adequately treated. Although a possible cause for this fact may be the deficient knowledge of physicians about diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension, to date no studies have addressed this important problem in Germany. Therefore, we have reviewed the knowledge of internists and general practitioners about diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension using a questionnaire. The guidelines of the German Hypertension Society were used as the reference standard. The questionnaire was sent out in December 1999 to all internists (n = 15,952) and to a random sample of general practitioners (n = 8947) who work as statutory health insurance physicians. A total of 11,547 questionnaires were sent back and could be analysed. Adequate guideline knowledge was assumed if five out of eight questions were correctly answered; the correct answers had to include the correct definition of arterial hypertension (> 140/90 ...

Jens Hagemeister hasn't uploaded this paper.

Let Jens know you want this paper to be uploaded.

Ask for this paper to be uploaded.