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How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard?
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JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine . Jul2005, Vol. 20 Issue 7, p647-649. 3p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Obtaining accurate blood pressure (BP) readings is a challenge faced by health professionals. Clinical trials implement strict protocols, whereas clinical practices and studies that assess quality of care utilize a less rigorous protocol for BP measurement.<bold>Objective: </bold>To examine agreement between real-time clinic-based assessment of BP and the standard mercury assessment of BP.<bold>Design: </bold>Prospective reliability study.<bold>Patients: </bold>One hundred patients with an International Classification of Diseases-9th edition code for hypertension were enrolled.<bold>Measures: </bold>Two BP measurements were obtained with the Hawksley random-zero mercury sphygmomanometer and averaged. The clinic-based BP was extracted from the computerized medical records.<bold>Results: </bold>Agreement between the mercury and clinic-based systolic blood pressure (SBP) was good, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)=0.91 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.83 to 0.94); the agreement for the mercury and clinic-based diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was satisfactory, ICC=0.77 (95% CI: 0.62 to 0.86). Overall, clinic-based readings overestimated the mercury readings, with a mean overestimation of 8.3 mmHg for SBP and 7.1 mmHg for DBP. Based on the clinic-based measure, 21% of patients were misdiagnosed with uncontrolled hypertension.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Health professionals should be aware of this potential difference when utilizing clinic-based BP values for making treatment decisions and/or assessing quality of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *BLOOD pressure
*BLOOD pressure measurement
*MEDICAL personnel
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*MEDICAL care
*CLINICAL medicine
*HYPERTENSION
*ACADEMIC medical centers
*COMPARATIVE studies
*DIAGNOSTIC errors
*OUTPATIENT services in hospitals
*LONGITUDINAL method
*RESEARCH methodology
*MEDICAL cooperation
*RESEARCH
*RESEARCH funding
*SPHYGMOMANOMETERS
*WEIGHTS & measures
*EVALUATION research
*DIAGNOSIS
RESEARCH evaluation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08848734
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17518784
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-005-0112-6