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Reporting basic co-factors such as age, gender, race, count method, patient position, and acclimation time is essential when presenting resting heart rate data to ensure clinical meaningfulness.
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Reporting of resting heart rate should include key co-factors such as age, gender, race, count method, patient position, and acclimation time to ensure clinical meaningfulness and comparability.
Resting heart rate, sometimes referred to as resting pulse rate (RPR) is taken for various reasons in the various health care professions. As with many physiological tests, there are a number of basic factors that can affect RPR, such as gender and position of the patient during measurement. In most papers, these basic factors are included but in some they are not. If such information is lacking, the meaningfulness of the reported RPR is diminished. The purpose of this manuscript is to highlight the importance of including such information when reporting on RPR data.
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John Hart (2016) conducted a review in Resting heart rate measurement. Reporting of co-factors (age, gender, race, count method, position, acclimation time) was evaluated. Reporting basic co-factors such as age, gender, race, count method, patient position, and acclimation time is essential when presenting resting heart rate data to ensure clinical meaningfulness.
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