Recognizing Pediatric Elevated Blood Pressure using an EPIC Best Practice Alert DAVIES AWARD OF EXCELLENCE2 RECOGNIZING PEDIATRIC ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE HIMSS | CASE STUDY Recognizing Pediatric Elevated Blood Pressure using an EPIC Best Practice Executive Summary Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD) such as heart attack and stroke have their roots beginning in childhood and adolescence with the inception of risk factors such as high blood pressure (hiBP). Unfortunately, data from others (Hansen et al, 2007) and your authors (Twichell et al, 2017) show hiBP is grossly under-recognized in youth, leading to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to reformulate the abnormal thresholds in September 2017 (Flynn et al, 2017). Texas Children’s Pediatrics (TCP), the

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