The effect of a patient education booklet and BP 'tracker' on knowledge about hypertension. A randomized controlled trial

Family Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 472-478

  Dawes, Martin G ^a   Kaczorowski, Janusz ^b   Swanson, Graham ^c   Hickey, John ^d   Karwalajtys, Tina ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d St Martha's Regional Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Home blood pressure monitoring; Hypertension; Knowledge translation; Self blood pressure monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT EDUCATION BOOKLET; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF MONITORING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 77956942038     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmq048     Document Type: Article

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