Can improved software facilitate the wider use of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in clinical practice?

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 237-241

  O'Brien, Eoin ^a,b   Atkins, Neil ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

24 h ABPM; Ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM); Computerization; dabl; Data presentation; Interpretative analysis; Software; Standardized plot

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITOR; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 12344322313     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200410000-00002     Document Type: Article

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