The Work Group also produced a set of guideline toolkit materials which included a provider summary, pocket card, and patient summary. The final 2020 VA/DoD HTN CPG was submitted to the EBPWG in March 2020. Appendix B: Patient Focus Group Methods and Findings A. Methods As part of the effort to update this CPG, VA and DoD Leadership held a patient focus group. The patient focus group was held on January 23, 2019, at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, CA. The aim of the focus group was to further understand and incorporate the perspective of patients with HTN and who are covered and/or receiving their care through the VA and/or DoD healthcare systems, as these patients are most affected by the recommendations put forth in the CPG. The focus group delved into the patients perspectives on a set of topics related to their HTN management, including their priorities, challenges they have experienced, the information they received regarding their care, as well as the impacts of their care on their lives. Participants for the focus group were recruited by VA and DoD Leadership as well as by the HTN CPG Champions. Patient focus group participants were not intended to be a representative sample of VA and DoD patients. However, recruitment focused on eliciting a range of perspectives likely to be relevant and informative in the guideline development process. Patients were not incentivized for their participation or reimbursed for travel expenses. The HTN CPG Champions and Work Group, with support from Lewin, developed a set of questions to help guide the focus group. The focus group facilitator led the discussion using the previously prepared questions as a general guide to elicit the most important information from the patients regarding their experiences and views about their treatment and overall care. 