Measure Up Pressure Down American Medical Group Foundation

Additional Provider Resources

Campaign Resources

Measure Up/Pressure Down® developed a number of resources to help quality improvement teams and providers improve hypertension control rates at their organizations.

• Campaign Planks
• Provider Toolkit
• Webinars
• Success Stories and Best Practices
• Latest Trends in Hypertension Treatment: For Professionals
• Data Reporting

Additional Resources

In addition to resources for healthcare providers developed and/or compiled by the Measure Up/Pressure Down® campaign, our partners and sponsors have additional resources that may be of use in your hypertension improvement efforts. Please note that the list below reflects resources available from campaign supporters only.

American Heart Association

• Statements & Guidelines

American Society of Hypertension

• Certified Hypertension Centers
• Hypertension Specialists Program
• Position Papers
  • Evaluation and Treatment of Orthostatic Hypotension
  • Obesity-Related Hypertension: Pathogenesis, Cardiovascular Risk, and Treatment
  • Blood Pressure and Treatment of Persons with Hypertension as it Relates to Cognitive Outcomes Including Executive Function
  • ASH Compendium of Antihypertensive Pharmacology
  • Management of Hypertension in the Transplant Patient
  • Adherence and Persistence With Taking Medication to Control High Blood Pressure
  • Combination Therapy in Hypertension
  • Dietary Approaches to Lower Blood Pressure
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy
  • When and How to Use Self (Home) and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • Treatment of Hypertension in Patients with Diabetes

HealthyWomen

• Prevention Tips: Hypertension (handouts for professionals)
• Prevention Tips: Heart Disease (handouts for professionals)
• Health Facts: Heart Disease (handouts for professionals)
• Health Facts: Eating for Heart Health (handouts for professionals)

Million Hearts®

• Hypertension Control: Action Steps for Clinicians
• Hypertension Control: Change Package for Clinicians
• Hypertension Prevalence Estimator Tool
• Cardiovascular Health: Action Steps for Employers
• Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Action Steps for Public Health Practitioners
• Hypertension Treatment Protocol Template
  • Elements Associated with Effective Adoption and Use of a Protocol: Insights from Key Stakeholders
• A Sample of Evidence-Based Hypertension Control Protocols
  • Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
  • New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
• Preventing 1 Million Heart Attacks and Strokes
  • Grand Rounds Recording
  • Mid-Course Review
• Million Hearts® Clinical Quality Measure Dashboard
• Million Hearts® Measures Alignment

National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

• Learning Session 1: Working with Pharmacists to Increase Medication Therapy Management
• Learning Session 2: Linking Patient Data from Home/Community to Clinical Practice and How to Sustain Work Around Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
• Learning Session 3: Using Electronic Health Records Data to Build Registries for Quality Improvement