A cluster-randomized trial of task shifting and blood pressure control in Ghana: Study protocol

Implementation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ogedegbe, Gbenga ^a   Plange Rhule, Jacob ^b   Gyamfi, Joyce ^a   Chaplin, William ^d   Ntim, Michael ^b   Apusiga, Kingsley ^b   Khurshid, Kiran ^d   Cooper, Richard ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure control; Cluster randomized controlled trial; Community health centers; Community health nurses; Ghana; Hypertension; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COUNSELING; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84902586621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-9-73     Document Type: Article

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