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Roger I. M. Glass, MD; Richard Mirel, MD; Geoffrey Hollander; Lawrence R. Krakoff, MD; Roger Karlin, MD; R. Alan Failor, MD

JAMA. 1978;240(18):1973-1974.

Abstract
Review of emergency department charts at three university-affiliated hospitals showed that less than half of all patients who had elevated blood pressure (BP) recorded were recognized by physicians to be hypertensive. At the primary teaching hospital, less than one third of patients with the greatest BP elevation (>20 mm Hg above normal) were sent for some type of hypertension follow-up care.

(JAMA 240:1973-1974, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Medicine (Drs Glass, Mirel, and Krakoff), Community Medicine (Drs Karlin and Failor), and Biostatistics (Mr Hollander), The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Dr Glass is now with the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Special Studies Branch, Chronic Diseases Division, Bureau of Epidemiology, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333 (Dr Glass).

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