Automated device that complies with current guidelines for office blood pressure measurement: Design and pilot application study of the Microlife WatchBP Office device

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-235

  Stergiou, George S ^a   Lin, Che Wei ^b   Lin, Chia Ming ^b   Chang, Shih Lung ^b   Protogerou, Athanasios D ^a   Tzamouranis, Dimitris ^a   Nasothimiou, Efthimia ^a   Tan, Ty Minh ^c  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Microlife Corporation   (Taiwan)

^c Microlife AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUSCULTATION; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STETHOSCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52649145418     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e3283057a84     Document Type: Short Survey

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