Why the study?
Does a consumer-directed e-health strategy improve the proportion of people meeting guideline-recommended blood pressure and cholesterol targets in adults at moderate-to-high cardiovascular risk?
Population
2000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-indigenous adults, recruited through primary care, with…
Comparison
Consumer-directed e-health strategy for… vs Usual care
Design
Randomised
Follow-up
average of 18 months
Authors
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Protocol for RCT of consumer-directed e-health leaves open its impact on CV risk factor control; no practice change warranted yet.
Does a consumer-directed e-health strategy improve the proportion of people meeting guideline-recommended blood pressure and cholesterol targets in adults at moderate-to-high cardiovascular risk?
This study protocol outlines a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether a consumer-directed e-health strategy improves cardiovascular risk factor control compared to usual care.
Redfern et al. (2014) studied this question.
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