Reducing Clinical Inertia in Hypertension Treatment: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 322-329

  Huebschmann, Amy G ^a   Mizrahi, Trina ^a   Soenksen, Alyssa ^a   Beaty, Brenda L ^b   Denberg, Thomas D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Division of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^c HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL INERTIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860326249     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2012.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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