Reproducibility of increased blood pressure during an emergency department or urgent care visit
Annals of Emergency MedicinePublished 1 April 2003
Howard Backer, Linda Decker, Lynn Ackerson
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Increased blood pressure is common among emergency or urgent care patients without a history of current hypertension, and most of these will have mixed or consistently abnormal results on repeat measures, and patients should be referred for repeat measures after a single abnormal measure in the ED.
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Increased blood pressure is common among emergency or urgent care patients without a history of current hypertension, and most of these will have mixed or consistently abnormal results on repeat measures. Patients should be referred for repeat measures after a single abnormal measure in the ED.
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