Blood pressure measuring equipment in the dental surgery: Use or ornament?

British Dental Journal

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 273-275

  Greenwood, M ^a   Lowry, R J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTIST; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTISTS; EDUCATION, DENTAL; GENERAL PRACTICE, DENTAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MASS SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037077914     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4801544     Document Type: Article

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