title: Taking blood pressure: too important to trust to humans?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Beachwood, OH 44122, USA. vidtd@ccf.org
authors.forename: Donald G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Vidt
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Raul J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Seballos
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Misra-Hebert
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Bena
mesh_terms: 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