Four remediable faults of the Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue SUPPL. 1-2, 1996, Pages

  Brown, William C B ^a   Kennedy, Susan ^a   Inglis, Gorden C ^a   Murray, Lilian ^a   Lever, Anthony F ^a  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hawksley sphygmomamoter; Observer bias; Underestimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842538152     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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