Quality control for blood pressure measurement in population studies: Shibata children's heart study

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1169-1173

  Yoshiike, Nobuo ^a   Nakayama, Takeo ^b   Yokoyama, Tetsuji ^b   Tanaka, Heizo ^b   Labarthe, Darwin R ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Children; Field survey; Korotokoff sounds; Measurement error; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STANDARD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAINING; VIDEOTAPE;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY CONTROL; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0030725592     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00154-6     Document Type: Article

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