Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Point-of-Care Testing

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 868-873

  Lopez, Larry M ^a   Taylor, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure monitoring; Hypertension; Point of care tests

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUSCULTATION; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OSCILLOMETRY; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STETHOSCOPE;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACISTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE;

EID: 1942502872     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1D347     Document Type: Review

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