Completed & Harmonized
The ICHOM Set of Patient-Centered Outcome Measures for Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is the result of hard work by a group of leading physicians, measurement experts and patients. It is our recommendation of the outcomes that matter most to patients with Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. We urge all providers around the world to start measuring these outcomes to better understand how to improve the lives of their patients.
- Recorded via the Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (BMQ [BMQ-Specific section]).
- Includes physical activity (recommended to track via the International Physical Activity Questionnaire [IPAQ-Short Form]), medication adherence (recommended to track via the Hill-Bone Compliance to High Blood Pressure Therapy Scale – South Africa Version [Medication taking sub-scale]) and salt intake (recommended to track via the WHO STEPS Instrument).
- Includes survival (overall and cardiovascular), blood pressure control, hypertensive urgencies and hypertensive emergencies, and erectile function (recommended to track via PROMIS single question).
- Includes hospitalization, peripheral artery disease, hypertensive crisis, heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, atrial fibrillation, and renal disease
- Recommended to track via the EQ-5D.
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Team that developed this set
BELARUS
Vladislav Podpalov | Belarusian Hypertension Society, Vitebsk State Medical University
BRAZIL
Otavio Berwanger | Hospital do Coração
Celso Amodeo | Brazilian Society of Cardiology
CAMEROON
Anastase Dzudie Tamdja | Pan African Society of Cardiology, University of Yaounde
CANADA
Norman Campbell | University of Calgary
Ernesto Schiffrin | McGill University, Jewish General Hospital
GHANA
Peter Lamptey | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, FHI 360
INDIA
Raghupathy Anchala | Indian Institute of Public Health Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India
MALAYSIA
Yook-Chin Chia | University of Malaya, Institute for Healthcare Development at Sunway University, Malaysian Society of Hypertension
MOZAMBIQUE
Albertino Damasceno | Eduardo Mondlane University
PORTUGAL
Manuela Fiuza | Universidade de Lisboa
António Vaz Carneiro | Universidade de Lisboa
SWITZERLAND
Fareed Mirza | Novartis Foundation
UNITED KINGDOM
Dorothea Nitsch | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Gbenga Ogedegbe | New York University Langone Medical Center
VIETNAM
Nam Phuong Do Thi | Heart Institute of Ho Chi Minh City
*Two patient representatives from Mexico and Tanzania were also members of the Working Group.
TEAM THAT FACILITATED THE UPDATE OF THIS SET AS PART OF THE CARDIOMETABOLIC FAMILY UPDATES INITIATIVE:
Elena Arbelo | Hospital Clínic Barcelona
Menno Huisman | Leiden University
Andreas Bollman | Heart Centre Leipzig
Benjamin Steinberg | University of Utah School of Medicine
John Beltrame | University of Adelaide
Tom Lumbers | University College London
Cristina García Ulloa | Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Andrew Pumerantz | WesternU, Population Health Science
Sergio Hernández | Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Søren Skovlund | Evidera
Mark Peyrot | Loyola University Maryland
Magdalena Walbaum | London School of Economics and Political Science
Erik (F.A.) Klok | Leiden University
Albertino Damasceno | Eduardo Mondlane University
Camila de Menezes Succi | Dasa Hospitals
Jana Nano | Helmholtz Zentrum München
Kevin Veen | Erasmus Medical Centre
Cindy de Jong | Leiden University
Tim Benson* | Nile Health
* Patient Representative
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