A smartphone-based clinical decision support system for primary health care workers to improve the detection and management of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk in rural India.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1040147

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

We have found that around one in four adults in rural India have hypertension and a minority of these receive best practice care. Current health system infrastructure is grossly under-resourced to address this. We aim to improve hypertension management by strengthening primary health care workforce capacity through use of a smartphone based clinical decision support system that is integrated with existing health structures. This will be evaluated in a trial involving 45 villages in rural Andhra Pradesh.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Targeted Calls

Funding Amount: $954,505.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

access to health care | cardiovascular disease prevention | decision support | electronic health information | rural health

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