Million Hearts® Releases “Hiding in Plain Sight” Resources to Help Find Patients with Undiagnosed Hypertension
Hypertension is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke. About 70 million Americans—nearly one out of three adults—have hypertension and almost half do not have the condition under control. Approximately 13 million people with uncontrolled hypertension don’t know they have it and are not receiving treatment.
This data suggest that millions of people with hypertension are seen by healthcare providers each year, but many remain undiagnosed—essentially “hiding in plain sight” within clinical settings. We invite you to visit the Million Hearts® “Hiding in Plain Sight” webpage to view a set of tools and resources to help find patients with undiagnosed hypertension.
On this page, you’ll find:
- “Finding Undiagnosed Hypertensive Patients” video: Viewers will learn four steps health systems and practices can take to find patients with potentially undiagnosed hypertension.
- Million Hearts® Hypertension Prevalence Estimator Tool: Health systems or practices can use this tool to: 1) estimate an expected hypertension prevalence among their ambulatory patient population; and 2) initiate or build on their existing hypertension management quality improvement process by comparing the expected hypertension prevalence generated from the tool with their actual calculated prevalence.
- Partner Toolkit: Refer to this resource for social media messages, social cards, and newsletter content that you can easily share with your partners to help spread the word.
For more information on Great Plains Quality Innovation Network’s efforts to improve cardiac health and prevention in support of the Million Hearts Campaign, visit our Web site.