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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hypertension--Patients"”.
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Effects of a Comprehensive Education Program on the Self-Efficacy and Health Behavior Performance in Patients with Hypertension
… self-efficacy and health behavior performance in patients with hypertension. This study was an experimental study which used an equivalent control group pre-post test design. Data was collected from July 4, 2006 to August 8, 2006. Subjects were recruited from a public health center in H city. The …
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Using EMR transactional data for personalize clinical decision support
… adoption of electronic medical records, patients' medical data has grown exponentially and thus constitutes an untapped field where similar techniques could be applied. If data were collectively farmed and intelligently filtered, patient information could be added to traditional clinical …
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A quality improvement project evaluating the perioperative implementation of a hypertension management protocol by anaesthesiologists at seven government hospitals in the Western Cape. “a multi-center, cross-sectional quality improvement project: the peri-operative implementation of a hypertension protocol by anesthesiologists”
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a common risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, with a high prevalence in patients presenting for elective surgery. In limited resource environments, patients have poor access to primary care physicians, limiting the efficacy of life-style modification …
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InsulPatch: A Slim, Powerless Microfluidic Patch-Pump for Insulin Delivery
… heart rate/actuation frequency) and increased in hypertension patients (with elevated blood/actuation pressure). A major future direction of the study is to test a wide range of device designs in a sample of human subjects by attaching the device onto the wrist and measuring the pulse-driven flow …
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The cost and cost-effectiveness of a text-messaging based intervention to support management of hypertension in South Africa
… assessed the cost and cost-effectiveness of hypertension management in South Africa within the context of a text messaging-based intervention (StAR* study) conducted in an urban public-sector clinic in Cape Town. The StAR* study is a community randomized trial that investigated the effect of …
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Knowledge and skills of volunteer staff regarding hypertension at a free urban clinic
Background and review of literature: Hypertension (HTN) is a major public health problem that impacts the lives of more than 70 million adults in the United States (US). The prevalence of HTN in the urban US Black population is approximately 45% higher than non-Hispanic Whites (NHW; 32%) and …
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Peripheral neuropathy in hypertension
Patients with essential hypertension have higher pain thresholds than individuals with normal blood pressure and may show evidence of subclinical peripheral neuropathy. Hypertension is strongly associated with diabetic neuropathy and the observed sensory loss may be aggravated by …