Hypertension guidelines and their limitations - The impact of physicians' compliance as evaluated by guideline awareness

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2079-2086

  Hagemeister, Jens ^a   Schneider, Christian A ^a   Barabas, Sven ^a   Schadt, Rüdiger ^a   Wassmer, Gernot ^b   Mager, Georg ^c   Pfaff, Holger ^a   Höpp, Hans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Institute for Health Research and Health Care   (Germany)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Hypertension; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034759513     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200111000-00020     Document Type: Article

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