A survey of clinician attitudes and management practices in hypertension

In order to determine the compliance of Canadian physicians with evidence-based hypertension guidelines, a self-administered questionnaire survey was distributed to a stratified random sample of 473 physicians in Central Alberta, Canada in December 1995.Excluding non-deliverable questionnaires, a response rate of 67% was obtained. Twenty-five per cent of respondents routinely used the fourth Korotkoff sound to define diastolic blood pressure …