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Nursing epidemiological approach of hypertension management in a Public Health Service from the Northern Region of Portugal

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Background: Epidemiological surveillance of a nursing diagnosis is an approach anchored in a post-modern epidemiology focused on a person’s health disease responses. Regarding public health priorities, the population where our study occurred had as a priority problem arterial hypertension. Related to this chronic disease, nursing diagnoses about health disease responses in primary healthcare has, as a major focus, Therapeutic Regimen Management. Our aim was to study the nursing diagnosis in this issue from an epidemiological approach. Methods: A descriptive study from an epidemiological approach was developed, analyzing nursing diagnoses in hypertensive patients. Results: We found 17.7% of undiagnosed patients and better diagnoses in patients with complications than in those without complications. Conclusions: Nursing records need to be improved in order to promote more robust studies in the post-modern epidemiology for the future.

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Public health nursing Epidemiological surveillance Nursing diagnosis Arterial hypertension

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Melo, P., Miranda, D., Santos, S., Sousa, S., Cardoso, T., Pereira, A. (2021, January). Nursing epidemiological approach of hypertension management in a Public Health Service from the Northern Region of Portugal. Healthcare, 9(1), 59

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