Aim: To analyze the quality of application of diagnostic methods in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) based at outpatient facilities in comparison with equipments of national clinical recommendations.
Materials and methods: The study was conducted in the framework of the outpatient registry of cardiovascular diseases (REKVAZA). It included analysis of outpatient medical cards of 2850 patients with AH examined in two municipal polyclinics. Men accounted for 27.8% of the total. Patients with associated clinical conditions for 79.6%. Age median (interquartile range) for men and women was 64.8 (56.8; 74.8) and 70.6 (60.1; 77.6) years respectively.
Results: It was shown that the scope of real physical examination (measurements of height, mass, waist circumference, BMI) was below the target level (p < 0.001). Results of complete blood cell count for the previous 12 months could be found only in 71.7% of the cards, data on blood glucose level in 61/7%, total cholesterol in 42.7%, creatinine in 45.4%, results of ECG in 59.9%, echoCG in 9.5%, 24hr AP monitoring in 0.3%. Instrumental and laboratory studies were more often performed in patients with associated clinical conditions (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: This study revealed poor quality of examination (physical, Instrumental and laboratory) of patients with arterial hypertension based at outpatient facilities.