The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 118, Issue 5 , Pages 521-528, May 2005

Group versus individual academic detailing to improve the use of antihypertensive medications in primary care: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

  • Steven R. Simon, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Steven R. Simon, MD, MPH, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02215.
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  • Sumit R. Majumdar, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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  • Lisa A. Prosser, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Susanne Salem-Schatz, ScD

      Affiliations

    • HealthCare Quality Initiatives, Newton, Massachusetts
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  • Cheryl Warner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Medford, Massachusetts.
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  • Ken Kleinman, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Irina Miroshnik, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Stephen B. Soumerai, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 27 August 2004; accepted 19 December 2004.

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 Funding/Support: This work was supported by a cooperative agreement (U18 HS 12019) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Majumdar is a Population Health Investigator of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and a New Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Drs. Simon and Soumerai are investigators in the HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U18HS010391).Role of the Sponsor: The funders had no role in the design of the study, analysis of the data, interpretation of the results, or the decision to publish.

PII: S0002-9343(05)00044-6

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.12.023

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 118, Issue 5 , Pages 521-528, May 2005

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