Telemonitoring based service redesign for the management of uncontrolled hypertension: Multicentre randomised controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7913, 2013, Pages

  McKinstry, Brian ^a   Hanley, Janet ^b   Wild, Sarah ^a   Pagliari, Claudia ^a   Paterson, Mary ^a   Lewis, Steff ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^a   Krishan, Ashma ^a   Stoddart, Andrew ^a   Padfield, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIURETIC AGENT; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG ERUPTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMONITORING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SELF CARE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84879374384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f3030     Document Type: Article

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