Managing blood pressure at home
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Home monitoring an empowering process
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Home monitoring overcomes the problem of clinical inertia
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Home monitoring could save (or cost) time
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Patients may get obsessed with monitoring their blood pressure
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Home monitoring might be anxiety provoking
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Usual practice for managing high blood pressure
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Currently no system for recording home readings in practice
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Are home readings accurate?
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Home monitoring overcomes problems of white coat hypertension
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Useful that home readings are emailed to practitioners
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A system for responding to emails from HOME BP
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Agreeing medication changes in advance
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Understanding medication changes in advance may be empowering for patients
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Concerns about choosing medication changes in advance
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Potential solutions to problems with choosing medication changes in advance
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Does the baseline medication review need to be longer to allow explanation of medication changes?
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Supporting patients using HOME BP
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Useful that HOME BP provides support with behaviour change
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Supporters role with behaviour change viewed as important
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Supporter’s guide accessible
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Practitioners value building patient autonomy (avoiding dependence on practitioners)
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Perceptions of non-directive support using CARE
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Perceptions of congratulating patients using CARE
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Perceptions of reassuring patients using CARE
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Desire to see the patient intervention
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Lack of time to provide support
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