Moderate-to-severe blood pressure elevation at ED entry: Hypertension or normotension?

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 474-479

  Dieterle, Thomas ^a   Schuurmans, Macé M ^a   Strobel, Werner ^a   Battegay, Edouard J ^a   Martina, Benedict ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22444441374     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2005.02.046     Document Type: Article

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