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Achieving accurate blood pressure readings in primary care
Author(s) -
Padfield Paul
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.612
Subject(s) - medicine , primary care , primary (astronomy) , blood pressure , intensive care medicine , family medicine , physics , astronomy
Professor Padfield discusses why readings taken in the surgery will often provide an inaccurate measurement of blood pressure and how reproducible results are best achieved with patient selfmonitoring.