Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2015 Oct;53(10):901–907. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000418

Table 2.

Agreement for use of guideline-recommended antihypertensive medications, blood pressure control, and appropriate response to uncontrolled blood pressure

Rewarded clinical measure No. (%) pts, manual review data No. (%) pts, AP-EHR data Overall agreement Positive agreement Negative agreement Kappa
Use of guideline-recommended medications* 2054 (72.3) 1847 (65.0) 0.79 0.85 0.66 0.51
Controlled BP* 1974 (69.5) 1898 (66.8) 0.94 0.96 0.91 0.87
Appropriate response to uncontrolled BP† 431 (52.2) 328 (39.8) 0.64 0.61 0.66 0.28

AP-EHR indicates automated processing of structured fields in the electronic health record; BP blood pressure.

*

Examined 2,840 patient records.

†

Among the 825 patients who had uncontrolled blood pressure in both data sources.