Adherence of doctors to hypertension clinical guidelines in academy charity teaching hospital, Khartoum, Sudan
| Autor: | Maisa Mustafa Elfadul, Mounkaila Noma, Hiba Salah Abdelgadir, Nisreen Haider Hamid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Clinical guidelines Clinical audit Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel Psychological intervention Logistic regression Health informatics Health administration Sudan 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Practice Patterns Physicians' Hospitals Teaching Clinical governance business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Nursing research Doctors Academies and Institutes lcsh:RA1-1270 Cross-Sectional Studies Treatment Outcome Charities Adherence Family medicine Practice Guidelines as Topic Hypertension Female Guideline Adherence 0305 other medical science business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMC Health Services Research, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2019) BMC Health Services Research |
| ISSN: | 1472-6963 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12913-019-4140-z |
| Popis: | Background Clinical guidelines are systematically proven statements that help physicians to make healthcare decisions for specific medical conditions. Non-adherence to clinical guidelines is believed to contribute significantly to poor delivery of clinical care, and hence poor clinical outcomes. This study aimed at investigating adherence of doctors to hypertension clinical guidelines in Academy Charity Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Methods A cross-sectional hospital-based study was conducted during the period from January 2017 to October 2017 on a sample of 150 doctors. Adherence of doctors to hypertension guidelines was measured through the modified JNC7 adherence tool. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize the data (mean, standard deviation, median) and analyzed by frequency tables. Chi square test used to determine association among categorized variables. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the relation between adherence to hypertension guidelines and the explanatory variables. All statistical tests were considered statistically significant when p value |
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