Development of an accurate oscillometric blood pressure device for low resource settings

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 342-348

  De Greeff, Annemarie ^a   Nathan, Hannah ^a   Stafford, Nina ^a   Liu, Bing ^a   Shennan, Andrew H ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adults; Association for the advancement of medical instrumentation; Blood pressure measurement; International protocol; Low resource setting; Oscillometric; Validation; WHO

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CALIBRATION; DIASTOLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; OSCILLOMETRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; SYSTOLE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 57149144118     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e32830fd07c     Document Type: Article

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