Home blood pressure testing is preferred

Patients rate home measurements of blood pressure as the most acceptable method of blood pressure assessment. Little and colleagues (p 254) recruited 200 patients to test the acceptability of different methods of the repeated measuring of blood pressure. They found that 10% of patients regarded measurement by a doctor as the most acceptable method, 18% preferred ambulatory monitoring, and 23% preferred measurement by a nurse, whereas 44% of the patients rated home measurement as the "best measurement for them."
 
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Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in primary care and daytime ambulatory blood pressure
Paul Little, Jane Barnett, Lucy Barnsley, Jean Marjoram, Alex Fitzgerald-Barron, and David Mant
BMJ 2002 325: 254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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