Screening for hypertension. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes and practice of primary health care physicians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1096-1100

  Al Khashman, Ahmad S ^a,b  

^a The General Directorate of Armed Forces Health Services   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Department of Family and Community Medicine ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Physicians; Primary health care; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING TEST;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0035677444     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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