The Nkateko health service trial to improve hypertension management in rural South Africa: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Thorogood, Margaret ^a,b   Goudge, Jane ^c   Bertram, Melanie ^d   Chirwa, Tobias ^c   Eldridge, Sandra ^e   Gómez Olivé, Francesc Xavier ^b,f   Limbani, Felix ^b,c   Musenge, Eustasius ^c   Myakayaka, Nokuzola ^b,c   Tollman, Stephen ^b,f,g   Twine, Rhian ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; LAY HEALTH WORKER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGER; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUPPORT GROUP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928781764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-435     Document Type: Article

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