Monitoring Study Participants and Implementation with Phone Calls to Support Hypertension Control During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of a Multicomponent Intervention Trial in Guatemala

• Main Authors: Diego Hernández-Galdamez (Author), Kristyne Mansilla (Author), Ana Lucía Peralta (Author), Javier Rodríguez-Szaszdi (Author), Juan Manuel Ramírez (Author), Dina Roche (Author), Pablo Gulayin (Author), Manuel Ramirez-Zea (Author), Jiang He (Author), Vilma Irazola (Author), Meredith P. Fort (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presents a challenge to health care for patients with chronic diseases, especially hypertension, because of the important association and increased risk of these patients with a severe presentation of COVID-19 disease. The Guatemalan Ministry of Health has been impl...