Clinical Inertia in Osteoarthritis

Nonadherence, clinical inertia, or therapeutic inertia?

in which certain therapies have adequate, even overwhelming if not unequivocal, evidence of effectiveness.5 Clinical inertia occurs, for example, when the patient fails to attain a biomarker goal (e.g., blood pressure less than 140/90 millimeters of mercury [mm Hg]) due at least in part to failure to intensify pharmacotherapy through upward dosing and/or addition of drugs to the therapeutic reg...

Clinical inertia: hard to move it forward.

Clinical Inertia and Outpatient Medical Errors

Clinical inertia is defined as lack of treatment intensification in a patient not at evidence-based goals for care. Clinical inertia is a major factor that contributes to inadequate chronic disease care in patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemias, depression, coronary heart disease, and other conditions. Recent work suggests that clinical inertia related to the management of...

Depression and clinical inertia in patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

Author Contributions:Dr Oliver had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Both authors. Acquisition of data:Oliver. Analysis and interpretation of data: Both authors. Drafting of the manuscript:Oliver. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content...

Clinical inertia in dentistry: a review of the phenomenon.

AIM Dentistry has been slow to adopt innovations in dental practice even when they are recommended by national organizations and supported by evidence-based guidelines. The objective of this review is to describe clinical inertia, a concept described frequently in the medical literature, and to use findings from tobacco cessation and dental sealant studies as evidence of its existence. METHOD...