@article{988afd1938814309b3c1cec4ab6b6a2f,
title = "Hypertension and type 2 diabetes: What family physicians can do to improve control of blood pressure - An observational study",
author = "Beverley Lawson and Burge, {Frederick I.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors wish to thank Dr. Paul Veugelers for his advice regarding hierarchical non-linear modeling, and Ms. Charmaine Cooke for her assistance with drug analysis. Dr. Preston Smith and Dr. Michael Murray contributed to the development of our project and to the recruitment of patients from their private practices. We also wish to thank all of the participating family physicians and nurse practitioners who recruited patients for this study, and the patients themselves for their willingness to be involved and to complete our mail survey. The operating funding for this phase of our project was provided by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ROP-82512, the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia. The BpTRU{\texttrademark} equipment used in this study was funded by the Office of Research Services of the Faculty of Medicine Dalhousie University, and the Capital District Health Authority of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The earlier phase of our study, which was essential to the main report, was also supported by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, and the Prince Edward Island Health Research Institute. Ingrid Sketris holds a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/ Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health Services Research, cosponsored by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1186/1471-2296-12-86",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
journal = "BMC Family Practice",
issn = "1471-2296",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
}
