Effectiveness of a medical education intervention to treat hypertension in primary care

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 420-425

  Martínez Valverde, Silvia ^a   Castro Ríos, Angélica ^b   Pérez Cuevas, Ricardo ^a,b   Klunder Klunder, Miguel ^a   Salinas Escudero, Guillermo ^a   Reyes Morales, Hortensia ^c  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

blood pressure; continuing medical education; family doctors; hypertension; primary care; programme evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84858126703     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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