Taking blood pressure: too important to trust to humans?
The measurement of blood pressure in the physician's office is subject to a number of observer errors and also to the "white-coat effect." Automatic devices that measure blood pressure without a human observer in the room can eliminate many of these problems. We argue for greater use of these devices in the physician's office.
Vidt
Donald G
DG
Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Beachwood, OH 44122, USA. vidtd@ccf.org
Lang
Richard S
RS
Seballos
Raul J
RJ
Misra-Hebert
Anita
A
Campbell
John
J
Bena
James F
JF
D001007:Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control; D001331:Automation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results