Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention: Team-Based Care to Improve Blood Pressure Control

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends team-based care to improve patients’ blood pressure. Team-based care is a health systems-level, organizational intervention that incorporates a multidisciplinary team to improve the quality of hypertension care for patients. Team-based care typically aims to:

• Facilitate communication and coordination of care among team members
• Enhance team members’ use of evidence-based guidelines
• Establish regular, structured follow-up mechanisms to monitor patients' progress and schedule additional visits as needed
• Actively engage patients in their own care by providing them with education about hypertension medication, adherence support, and tools and resources for self-management