March 19, 2010Blood Pressure Monitoring
Methods of measurements: home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Population
Patients with hypertension
Comparison
Home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring… vs Clinic blood pressure measurement
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports out-of-office BP monitoring in hypertension; leaves open optimal integration into guidelines and practice.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients with hypertension
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Intervention
Home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring over 24 h
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Comparator
Clinic blood pressure measurement
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Outcome
Management of patients with hypertension
This review highlights the importance of home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for optimizing hypertension management, serving as a tribute to the contributions of Tom Pickering.
Cite This Study
Parati et al. (2010) studied this question.