Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Incremental benefits and harms of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association high blood pressure guideline.
Published 2018The recent recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) to lower the thresholds for defining hypertension and for treating higher-risk patients1 have been controversial. ...Article -
Monitoring Initial Response to Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor–Based Regimens: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis From Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials.
Published 2010Most clinicians monitor blood pressure to estimate a patient’s response to blood pressure–lowering therapy. However, the apparent change may not actually reflect the effect of the treatment, because a person’s blood pressure ...Open AccessArticle -
Monitoring Adherence to Medication by Measuring Change in Blood Pressure.
Published 2010After starting antihypertensives, blood pressure is monitored for several reasons, including assessment of adherence. We aimed to estimate the accuracy of blood pressure monitoring for detecting early nonadherence. We ...Open AccessArticle -
Dataset for "Knowledge, skills and barriers to evidence-based practice and the impact of a flipped classroom training program for physical therapists: an observational study"
Published 2021-02-17Objective: To evaluate the knowledge, skills and barriers to evidence-based practice and the impact of evidence-based practice training for physical therapy clinicians. Methods: Physical therapists from a health district ...Open AccessDataset -
Optimizing the frequency of follow-up visits for patients treated for localized primary cutaneous melanoma
Published 2011To develop more evidence-based guidelines for the frequency of patient follow-up after treatment of localized (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] stage I or II) melanoma. Methods: We used data from Melanoma Institute ...Open AccessArticle