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This is one action staff should ensure is correct regarding the patient before taking a blood pressure measurement.
What is appropriate patient preparation and position?
This is the goal BP control target for optimal management.
What is less than 130/80 mmHg?
How often should you monitor a patient's blood pressure until it is controlled?
What is every two weeks?
This is the overall goal percentage for the number of patients with hypertension who should be well-controlled.
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What is 1973?
This simple, free visual cue can be placed on an exam room door to alert the clinician that a patient's initial blood pressure was elevated and must be rechecked before they leave
What is a Door Hanger?
The primary action defined for MANAGE in the Aledade 4Ms framework.
What is Prescribe and intensify therapy?
What is the maximum timeframe for ensuring patients with elevated blood pressure have a follow-up?
What is four weeks?
This is the name of the online tool where all resources and tools shown in the presentation are available.
What is the Aledade Learning Hub?
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What is Mt. Elbert?
This is the action that should always occur if an initial blood pressure reading is greater than 140/90.
What is recheck?
After escalating therapy or adding a medication for an uncontrolled patient, practices should schedule prompt follow-up within this timeframe to verify improvement.
What is 4 weeks?
For patients with controlled, stable blood pressure, the recommendation is to follow up in this many months.
What is 6 months?
A powerful "why" to share with your staff and patients is that uncontrolled hypertension is the number one cause of these costly events at Aledade, accounting for 20% of them.
What are preventable Emergency Department (ED) visits?
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What is 1876?
The American Heart Association recommends using this specific type of device because its automatic mode takes multiple unattended readings, minimizing observer bias and the "white coat effect"
What is an Automated Office Blood Pressure (AOBP) device?
This is the minimum percentage goal of patients with uncontrolled hypertension that should receive medication intensification.
What is >40%?
If a patient is unengaged, practices should use this specific Aledade App tool, filtering for "controlled" to find patients with a history of high readings but no reading in more than 12 months?
What is the Hypertension Worklist?
Starting in 2026, patient-reported readings from these tools count toward the metric, making them a powerful way to motivate patients to engage in their own care at home.
What are digital home cuffs (or Home BP Monitors/SMBP)?
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What is 1991?
When using manual cuffs, practices often unconsciously fall into this habit, which Aledade recommends keeping below 20% to avoid failing quality measures
What is measurement rounding?
To combat "clinical inertia," Aledade recommends treating a severely uncontrolled BP of 160/100 or higher like one of these, requiring face-to-face notification with the clinician.
What is a critical lab result?
Two ways to get follow up reading outside of office
What is Self-Measured Blood Pressure (SMBP) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)?
Assessing social drivers of health can be done by adding a key question to your intake, such as this example question.
What is “Do you have access to affordable medications, transportation, housing, and food?
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What is Leadville?