Recommendations for blood pressure measuring devices for office/clinic use in low resource settings

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-10

  Parati, Gianfranco ^a   Mendis, Shanthi ^b   Abegunde, Dele ^b   Asmar, Ronald ^c   Mieke, Stephan ^d   Murray, Alan ^e   Shengelia, Bakuti ^b   Steenvoorden, Gijs ^f   Van Montfrans, Gert ^g   O'Brien, Eoin ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b WHO Headquarters   (Switzerland)

^c L'Institut CardioVasculaire   (France)

^d PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^e FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aneroid manometers; Arterial hypertension; Blood pressure measurement; Developing world; Epidemiology; Mercury manometers; Oscillometric devices

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COST; CUFF; DEVICE; ELECTRIC BATTERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEMORY; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; OFFICE VISITS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 20044388907     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200502000-00002     Document Type: Review

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