Fig. 2
From: Hypertension management in rural western Kenya: a needs-based health workforce estimation model
Encounter frequency and management plan by patient category. A portion of the AMPATH Hypertension clinical protocol is illustrated, demonstrating different patient categories, each associated with its respective encounter frequency and management plan. In this example, category 7 refers to a patient with elevated blood pressure not yet on medications, who enrolls in nurse-managed hypertension care and initiates pharmacotherapy. This patient can improve (category 2), remain unchanged (category 8), or worsen (category 12 or 13).