A bundled quality improvement program to standardize clinical blood pressure measurement in primary care
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Measurement of blood pressure in primary care.
The value of measuring blood pressure in the clinic is debatable, especially when it is done by doctors. Inherent variability means that true changes in blood pressure can be difficult to detect using clinic readings. Furthermore, misclassification on the basis of clinic readings can occur in people with “normal” underlying blood pressure who are labelled as hypertensive because of the pressor ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1524-6175
DOI: 10.1111/jch.13166