Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension (CAATCH): Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial Main Effects Running title: Ogedegbe et al.; Counseling African Americans to control HTN
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Dept of Population Health, Division of Health & Behavior and Center for Healthful Behavior Change, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY; Clinical Directors Network (CDN), New York, NY; Dept of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY; Center for Clinical and Translational Science, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Dept of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension (CAATCH): Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial Main Effects
Background—Data is limited on implementation of evidence-based multilevel interventions targeted at BP control in hypertensive African Americans who receive care in low-resource primary care practices. Methods and Results—Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension (CAATCH) is a cluster-randomized clinical trial in which 30 Community Health Centers (CHCs) were randomly assigned to the ...
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