Barriers to Accurate Blood Pressure Measurement in the Medical Office

• Main Authors: Kevin O. Hwang (Author), Aitebureme Aigbe (Author), Hsiao-Hui Ju (Author), Victoria C. Jackson (Author), Emily W. Sedlock (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: SAGE Publishing, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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Background: Despite the high prevalence of blood pressure (BP) measurement errors in the outpatient setting, little is known about why primary care clinics struggle to achieve consistently accurate BP measurements in routine practice. We investigated barriers affecting measurement of BP for adult pa...