Abstract
Team-based care for hypertensive patients is essential in low- and middle-income countries.
Highlights
The survey found that nurses were open to more task sharing for hypertension management, including measur‐ ing blood pressure, assessing cardiovascular risk, counseling about lifestyle interventions, and prescribing or changing antihyperten‐ sive drugs according to a physician‐approved pathway or algorithm
Half of the nurses failed to respond to these questions on task sharing and very few responded to more specific questions around knowledge and confidence for medication prescription
In Cameroon, another low‐ to middle‐income countries (LMICs), a nurse‐led protocol resulted in mean sys‐ tolic and diastolic blood pressure reductions of 11.7/7.8 mm Hg in 454 patients over 25 months.[6]
Summary
The article by Myanganbayar et al presents the results of a KAP survey conducted in over 800 Mongolian healthcare professionals, including general practitioners, family doctors, internal medicine specialists, and nurses. The survey found that nurses were open to more task sharing for hypertension management, including measur‐ ing blood pressure, assessing cardiovascular risk, counseling about lifestyle interventions, and prescribing or changing antihyperten‐ sive drugs according to a physician‐approved pathway or algorithm
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