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Would primary healthcare professionals prescribe a polypill to manage cardiovascular risk? A qualitative interview study
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OBJECTIVES: A 'polypill' containing both blood pressure-lowering and cholesterol-lowering drugs could prevent up to 80% of cardiovascular disease events. Since little is known about the attitudes of primary healthcare professionals to use of such a pill for cardiovascular disease prevention, this study aimed to investigate opinions. DESIGN: Semistructured interviews were conducted with participants. A qualitative description approach was used to analyse and report the results. SETTING: Partic...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002498
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- BMJ Publishing Group
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- BMJ Open More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2013-03-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-02-22
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2044-6055
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English
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pubs:390877
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390877
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2013-11-16
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- Virdee et al
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- 2013
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- © 2013 Virdee et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license.
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