Impact of patient-general practitioner short-messages-based interaction on the control of hypertension in a follow-up service for low-to-medium risk hypertensive patients: A randomized controlled trial

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 780-791

  Carrasco, Mario Pascual ^a   Salvador, Carlos H ^a   Sagredo, Pilar G ^a   Márquez Montes, Joaquín ^a   González de Mingo, Miguel A ^a   Fragua, Juan A ^a   Rodríguez, Montserrat Carmona ^a   García Olmos, Luis M ^b   García López, Fernando ^a   Carrero, Adolfo Muñoz ^a   Monteagudo, José L ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b Teaching and Research Unit   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Follow up service; Hypertension; Telemedicine; Telemonitoring

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; TELEMEDICINE;

AVERAGE VALUES; BODY WEIGHTS; CONTROL GROUPS; FOLLOW-UP SERVICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS; HEART RATES; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS; PRIMARY CARES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TELEMONITORING;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEMEDICINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 56549103086     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.926429     Document Type: Article

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