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Table 3 Reasons why patients stopped coming for follow up in the HTN clinic

From: Reasons behind high rate of non-compliance to scheduled office visits in hypertensive patients: results from the Egyptian registry of specialized hypertension clinics

Reasons for non-compliance to office visits

No. (%)

(no. = 649)

Patient was measuring his/her BP elsewhere

444 (68.4)

 - Pharmacy

239 (36.8)

 - MOH hospitals

78 (12.0)

 - Insurance hospitals

6 (0.9)

 - Private doctor

62 (9.6)

 - Home device

66 (10.2)

*Healthcare related factors

 

 - Healthcare service unsatisfactory

53 (8.2)

 - No one called the patient to come for follow up

5 (0.7)

 - Patient referred to clinic for other reasons

31 (4.8)

 - Patient is not taking medications from the clinic

24 (3.7)

*Patient’s related factors

1. Patient’s awareness

 

 - Patient thought that HTN is not a serious disease

0 (0)

 - Patient is asymptomatic

94 (14.5)

2. Socio-economic factors

 

 - Clinic was far from home

110 (16.9)

 - Financial reasons

24 (3.7)

 - Depression

4 (0.6)

 - Patient disability and inability to move easily

22 (3.4)

3. Perceived effectiveness of treatment

 

 - Patient is convinced that anti HTN treatment will work with no need to follow up

16 (2.5)

4. Patients follow up HTN while following up other co morbidities

35 (5.4)

5. Inconvenient time of the clinic

49 (7.6)

Others

 - Patient BP is controlled

71 (10.9)

 - Patient was found to be normotensive

31 (4.8)

 - BP elevation was situational

28 (4.3)

 - Other causes

180 (27.7)

  1. BP, blood pressure; HTN, hypertension; MOH, Ministry Of Health