Terminal digit preference and single-number preference in the Syst-Eur trial: Influence of quality control

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 169-177

  Wingfield, David ^a   Cooke, Jonathan ^a   Thijs, Lut ^a   Staessen, Jan A ^a   Fletcher, Astrid E ^a   Fagard, Robert ^a   Bulpitt, Christopher J ^a  

^a Brook Green Medical Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Blood pressure; Data quality; Digit preference; Education; Number preference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FINGER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SITTING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS; AMBULATORY CARE; BODY POSTURE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OFFICE VISITS; POSTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS;

EID: 0036592624     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200206000-00005     Document Type: Article

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