Resources to Increase Adherence

1. Improving Adherence
   
   
   • A practical single question shown to identify low adherence
   • Other ways to assess non-adherence
   • Adherence conversations with your patients
   • Free medication and other benefits for your patients
   • Low cost hypertension medications
     
     
2. Hypertension Management – Selected Resources
   
   
   • For your patients to use
     • Prevent and control high blood pressure: Mission Possible materials
     • Easy-to-read booklets for your patients: improving cardiovascular health in African Americans
     • DASH diet
     • 20 tested recipes. Heart healthy home cooking African American style
     • Tips to help your patients remember to take their blood pressure drugs
     • Your guide to lowering high blood pressure (NHLBI)
       
       
   • For you to use
     • Improving Hypertension Control: Tips for Clinicians
     • Hypertension management. JNC 7 Report on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
       
       
3. Help Patients Understand
   
   
   • Checklist for patient-friendly office procedures
   • Six steps to improving interpersonal communication with patients
   • Behaviors that improve communication
   • Formatting checklist for easy-to-read written materials
   • When talking with your patients