Assist your patient to adhere by:

• Tailoring pill-taking to fit patients’ daily habits (Grade D);
• Simplifying medication regimens to once-daily dosing (Grade D);
• Replacing multiple pill antihypertensive combinations with single pill combinations (Grade C);
• Using unit-of-use packaging (of several medications to be taken together) (Grade D); and
• Using a multidisciplinary team approach to improve adherence to an antihypertensive prescription (Grade B).

Assist your patient in getting more involved in their treatment by

• Encouraging greater patient responsibility/ autonomy in monitoring their blood pressure and adjusting their prescriptions (Grade C); and
• Educating patients and patients’ families about their disease and treatment regimens (Grade C)

Improve your management in the office and beyond by

• Assessing adherence to pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapy at every visit (Grade D);
• Encouraging adherence with therapy by out-of-office contact (either by phone or mail), particularly during the first three months of therapy (Grade D);
• Coordinating with pharmacists and work-site healthcare givers to improve monitoring of adherence with pharmacological and lifestyle modification prescriptions (Grade D).
• Utilizing electronic medication compliance aids (Grade D).