Evaluation of Blood Pressure Measurement and Agreement in an Academic Health Sciences Center

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 222-227

  Minor, Deborah S ^a   Butler Jr , Kenneth R ^a   Artman, Katherine L ^b   Adair, Cathy ^a   Wang, Wanmei ^b   McNair, Valerie ^a   Wofford, Marion R ^a   Griswold, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIASTOLE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYSTOLE;

EID: 84862800861     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2012.00599.x     Document Type: Article

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