Improving management and effectiveness of home blood pressure monitoring: A qualitative UK primary care study

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 65, Issue 640, 2015, Pages e776-e783

  Grant, S ^a   Greenfield, S M ^a   Nouwen, A ^b   McManus, R J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Motivation; Primary care; Qualitative; Self monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IN DEPTH INTERVIEW; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF MONITORING; SELF MONITORING BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84946729352     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: 14785242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp15X687433     Document Type: Article

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