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Author details
1Primary Care Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences Building University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham UK, B15 2TT. 2General Practice &
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care,
University of Cambridge, UK, CB2 0SR. 3Clinical Research facility Royal Victoria
Infirmary Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, NE1 4LP.
Authors’ contributions
JM conceived the study. JM, KF, SC, GF, RH, RM and UM designed the RCT;
KF, SV and SG were responsible for the design of the qualitative element; SJ,
JM, CT and RM participated in the design of the health economics; JB, CT,
and JM designed the treatment algorithm and NF participated in the design
of the statistics. KF drafted the manuscript and all authors contributed to its
revision. All authors have given final approval of the version to be published.
JM is the study guarantor.
Competing interests
GF or his institution has received payment for educational, advisory and
research activities related to BP lowering drugs in the last 12 months from
the following pharmaceutical companies: Boehringer Ingelheim, Servier.
FDRH has received limited research support in terms of BP devices from
Microlife and BpTRU and occasional sponsorship or speaker fees from a
number of pharmaceutical companies that market anti-hypertensives.
RJM is funded by an NIHR Career Development Fellowship and has no
conflicts with respect to this paper.
NF has received funding for research and consulting from several companies
who manufacture treatments for cardiovascular disease.
None of the remaining authors have any conflicts of interest.
Received: 23 June 2010 Accepted: 9 August 2010
Published: 9 August 2010
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Cite this article as: Fletcher et al.: Protocol for Past BP: a randomised
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