Dialogue between primary and secondary health care providers in a Brazilian hypertensive population

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE To describe clinical and epidemiological profiles of patients with hypertension referred to a secondary care unit and to assess the adequacy of the referral criteria. METHOD This descriptive transversal study analysed 943 hypertensive patients referred to a secondary healthcare...

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Main Authors: Chislene Pereira Vanelli, Mônica Barros Costa, Fernando Antonio Basile Colugnati, Hélady Sanders Pinheiro, Elaine Amaral de Paula, Christiane Chaves Augusto Leite Simão, Mayra Zanon Casagrande, Katiana Vinha de Sousa, Rogério Baumgratz de Paula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Médica Brasileira
Series:Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-42302018000900799&lng=en&tlng=en