Recommendations

2012 CHEP Recommendations NEW

The Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) is Hypertension Canada's knowledge translation program that targets various healthcare professionals in clinical and community settings, provides annually updated standardized recommendations and clinical practice guidelines to detect, treat and control hypertension. 2012 marks the 13th consecutive year that CHEP has updated recommendations for the management of hypertension.

The program includes development of the recommendations, dissemination (both printed and electronic) and evaluation. The annual, evidence-based recommendations are developed through intense discussion of the clinical implications via a systematic review of the literature followed by critical appraisals of all the new clinical research. The CHEP recommendations for health care providers are then translated and adapted into educational materials for patients and providers. The public recommendations are published in lay and health care professional journals and available for distribution to medical offices, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, education centres and via a free CHEP mobile application.

For more information contact Judi Farrell, Chief Executive Officer at judi.farrell@hypertension.ca