Hypertension in Adults: Screening

Adults 18 years or older without known hypertension:
The USPSTF recommends screening for hypertension in adults 18 years or older with office blood pressure measurement (OBPM). The USPSTF recommends obtaining blood pressure measurements outside of the clinical setting for diagnostic confirmation before starting treatment.
Grade: A

Id: hypertension-screening

Identifier: ark:HypertensionScreening

Type: koio:KnowledgeObject

Version: v1.10

Date: 2024-12-12

License: license.md

Creator Information

Name: Knowledge Systems Lab

Affiliation: Knowledge Systems Lab, University of Michigan Medical School

Email: kgrid-developers@umich.edu

Website: https://kgrid.org

Services

ActivatorService

Type: Service

Depends on: hypertension_in_adults_screening

Implemented by: https://github.com/kgrid-objects/USPSTF-collection/blob/main/hypertension-screening/ActivatorService

CLIService

Type: Service

Depends on: hypertension_in_adults_screening

Implemented by: hypertension_screening.py

APIService

Type: Service

Depends on: hypertension_in_adults_screening

Implemented by: hypertension_screening.py

Knowledge

hypertension_in_adults_screening

Type: koio:Knowledge

Implemented by:

Source: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hypertension-in-adults-screening

Format: text/html

Date: 2021-04-27

Creator Information:

Name: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Documentation

Hypertension in Adults: Screening

This is the USPSTF documentation webpage for Hypertension in Adults Screening recommendation.

Using the Hypertension Screening in Adults Knowledge Object: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

This Google Colab tutorial demonstrates four different ways to use the hypertension-screening knowledge object:

  • using the built-in command-line interface (CLI) service
  • using the python activator
  • using the knowledge object's knowledge representation directly in the code

README.md

read me file.

Tests

Knowledge tests

These tests are written to test the accuracy of the knowledge implementation.

Implementation tests

These tests are written to test the use of superclass KO to implement this knowledge object.