Table 2 Anticipated benefits of home BP monitoring
Benefit categories | Benefits | Representative quotation |
|---|---|---|
Patient Benefits | Empowerment | “So she owns her health. She understands, she asks questions. It's more of a joint care, multidisciplinary approach. We have the patient as one of the clinicians.” ID 17, Female Senior Resident |
Trust of diagnosis | “When [patients] start home BP monitoring early, they realize that it's not the doctor saying it…you know this is something I didn't have and I can see myself that [BP] is going up…As against me springing a diagnosis on you.” ID 4, Female Consultant | |
Clinical Benefits | More quantity and quality of data | “I think [home monitoring] would create a better overall picture of the patient's response rather than that snapshot that you get when they come to you once every 4 weeks.” ID 22, Male Consultant |
Earlier detection and improved management | “If the high risk people are monitoring at home,…we are going to pick most of the diagnoses early, it will help us put in interventions early, and we are definitely going to achieve better outcomes.” ID 12, Male Junior Resident | |
Systemic Benefits | Reduced healthcare expenditure | "So [home monitoring] will probably help reduce the costs for the facility and for the patient. It will help us catch late cases earlier. It will reduce the time and then probably the manpower you put into managing those adverse cases.” ID 13, Male Junior Resident |
Public health promotion | “Other members of the family are going to go ahead and check their blood pressures. And they could have essential hypertension that could be picked up and they could seek care. So giving it to one person will save the whole family.” ID 10, Male House Officer |