Improving Medication Routines and Adherence in Hypertensive African Americans: Finding the Needle in the Haystack

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 673-674

  Kountz, David S ^a   Kofman, Eugene ^a  

^a JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; NOTE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEXT MESSAGING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING;

EID: 84940895271     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jch.12564     Document Type: Note

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