Conventional versus automated measurement of blood pressure in primary care patients with systolic hypertension: randomised parallel design controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the quality and accuracy of manual office blood pressure and automated office blood pressure using the awake ambulatory blood pressure as a gold standard.

Design

Multi-site cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Primary care practices in five cities in eastern Canada.

Participants

555 patients with systolic hypertension and no serious comorbidities under the care of 88 primary care physicians in 67 practices in the community.

Interventions

Practices were randomly allocated to either ongoing use of manual office blood pressure (control group) or automated office blood pressure (intervention group) using the BpTRU device. The last routine manual office blood pressure (mm Hg) was obtained from each patient's medical record before

SUBMITTER: Myers MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3034423 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature