Validation Standards for Automatic Cuff-Based Sphygmomanometers: State of the Art

To avoid under- or overdiagnosis of hypertension, the clinician needs to have firm confidence in the measurement tool. Recently, numerous automatic cuff-based sphygmomanometers have become this tool. The solution to this problem appears to be a wider introduction of device validation (accuracy check) activities in research structures. This review presents a number of aspects that are relevant to the ongoing work to develop a global universal standard for such validation.