Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

The first approach is to bring the patient back to the office, at least for monthly blood pressure visits until the blood pressure goal is achieved. In the meantime, when the patient is at home, I ask the patient to engage in home blood pressure monitoring. And then it's important, I think, to use medications that will promote adherence if possible. We'll talk about this later, but adherence to anti-hepertensive drug therapy is a huge problem and we need to try to prevent that right from the beginning.