Blood pressure self-monitoring in pharmacies: Building on existing resources;L'autosurveillance de l'hypertension en pharmacie. Miser sur les resources existantes

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 48, Issue OCT., 2002, Pages 1594-1595

  Chambers, Larry W ^a,b   Kaczorowski, Janusz ^c   Levitt, Cheryl ^c   Karwalajtys, Tina ^c   McDonough, Bea ^d   Lewis, Jacqueline ^e,f  

^a Institute on Health of the Elderly   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Health Lifestyles and Disease Prevention Branch   (New Zealand)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PHARMACIST; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF MONITORING; SPHYGMOMANOMETER;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CANADA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PHARMACIES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036809919     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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