Recent Posts Tagged With 'hypertension'

• Unhealthy behavior + genes = hypertension

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 09:02 in smoking, drinking, hypertension, unhealthy lifestyle, heart and stroke

  It all adds up - unhealthy behaviour and genes - to pave the way towards hypertension and cardiovascular disease. We all know that certain lifestyle factors, e.g. cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and lack pf physical exercise lead to high blood...

• Hypertension: does “pay-for-performance” deliver quality care?

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 08:27 in high blood pressure, hypertension, p4p, quality care, reimbursements, heart and stroke, pay-for-performnce

  Nowadays, health care practitioners are reimbursed on a “pay-for-performance” basis also called P4P which rewards physicians financially for achieving targets and treatment goals. The financial rewards can vary from increase in percentage...

• R-I-N-G-G-G: your blood pressure, please?

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 09:37 in hypertension, blood pressure, phone call, add new tag, heart and stroke, automated service

  It’s not your normal phone call. It is just like having your own assistant who reminds you to check your blood pressure and refill your prescriptions except that this is all fully automated and computerized. Researchers at the University of Mon...