A primary healthcare information intervention for communicating cardiovascular risk to patients with poorly controlled hypertension: The Education and Coronary Risk Evaluation (Educore) study-A pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial.

Purpose: Uncertainty exists regarding the best way to communicate cardiovascular risk (CVR) to patients, and it is unclear whether the comprehension and perception of CVR varies according to the format used. The aim of the present work was to determine whether a strategy designed for communicating CVR information to patients with poorly controlled high blood pressure (HBP), but with no background of cardiovascular disease, was more effective than usual care in the control of blood pressure (BP) over the course of a year.

Methods: A pragmatic, two-arm, cluster-randomized controlled trial was performed.

[Research and protection of personal data in Primary Care].

Research is one of the fundamental functions that have to be carried out in Primary Care. The clinical information stored in different records arising from medical care is a basic tool for this activity. The use of personal data for the purposes of research is legitimate according to our laws; however, this information must be treated confidentially at all times.

EDUCORE project: a clinical trial, randomised by clusters, to assess the effect of a visual learning method on blood pressure control in the primary healthcare setting.

Background: High blood pressure (HBP) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). European hypertension and cardiology societies as well as expert committees on CVD prevention recommend stratifying cardiovascular risk using the SCORE method, the modification of lifestyles to prevent CVD, and achieving good control over risk factors. The EDUCORE (Education and Coronary Risk Evaluation) project aims to determine whether the use of a cardiovascular risk visual learning method--the EDUCORE method--is more effective than normal clinical practice in improving the control of blood pressure within one year in patients with poorly controlled hypertension but no background of CVD;

Methods/design: This work describes a protocol for a clinical trial, randomised by clusters and involving 22 primary healthcare clinics, to test the effectiveness of the EDUCORE method.

Satisfaction of patients with mechanical neck disorders attended to by primary care physical therapists.

Objective: To describe the satisfaction and expectations of the patients with neck pain with relation to the physical therapy received and to analyse the relationship between the patient's characteristics and his degree of satisfaction and expectation.

Design: This study is performed in the setting of a random clinical trial.

Participants: Subjects between 18 and 60 years of age with subacute mechanical neck disorders.

[Randomized clinical trial for primary care patients with neck pain: manual therapy versus electrical stimulation].

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of manual therapy (MT) versus transcutaneous electrical nervous stimulation (TENS) in reducing the intensity of pain in patients with subacute or chronic neck pain (NP) attended at primary care physiotherapy units (PCPU).

Design: Randomised clinical trial.

Setting: Thirteen PCPU in 4 health districts of the Community of Madrid, Spain.

Information needs and information-seeking behavior of primary care physicians.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the information needs of primary care physicians in Spain and to describe their information-seeking patterns.

Methods: This observational study took place in primary care practices located in Madrid, Spain. Participants were a random stratified sample of 112 primary care physicians.

[Study of the Information requirements generated by primary care doctors (ENIGMA Project)].

Objectives: To determine the information needs of primary care physicians by identifying the frequency and type of questions arising during consultation, and by describing the information-search pattern. DESIGN. Observational, descriptive, multi-centre study.