Effectiveness of a two-part educational intervention to improve hypertension control: A cluster-randomized trial

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 26, Issue 9 I, 2006, Pages 1342-1347

  Hennessy, Sean ^a   Leonard, Charles E ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Kimmel, Stephen E ^a   Townsend, Raymond R ^a   Wasserstein, Alan G ^a   Ten Have, Thomas R ^a   Bilker, Warren B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic detailing; Health care; Hypertension; Patient education; Quality assurance; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHARMACISTS;

EID: 33748124637     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.26.9.1342     Document Type: Article

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