[Comparative effectiveness of the combined outpatient-hospital and outpatient treatments of hypertension patients with high and stable arterial pressure indices].

The paper is concerned with an analysis of the effectiveness of the outpatient and hospital stages in the treatment of patients with essential hypertension with stable and high AP indices. The absence of significant changes in the time course of AP, the number and nature of complications and the number of days of temporary disability was shown in 197 patients treated in the groups of outpatient and outpatient-hospital therapy.