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Item Adapting and implementing training, guidelines and treatment cards to improve primary care-based hypertension and diabetes management in a fragile context: Results of a feasibility study in Sierra Leone(BMC, 2020-07-29) Zou, Guanyang; Witter, Sophie; Caperon, Lizzie; Walley, John; Cheedella, Kiran; Senesi, Reynold G. B.; Wurie, HajaBackground: Sierra Leone, a fragile country, is facing an increasingly significant burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Facilitated by an international partnership, a project was developed to adapt and pilot desktop guidelines and other clinical support tools to strengthen primary care-based hypertension and diabetes diagnosis and management in Bombali district, Sierra Leone between 2018 and 2019. This study assesses the feasibility of the project through analysis of the processes of intervention adaptation and development, delivery of training and implementation of a care improvement package and preliminary outcomes of the intervention.