The role of home BP monitoring: Answers to 10 common questions
How does home BP monitoring stack up against clinic and ambulatory measurements for the Dx and management of hypertension? Find out in this review.
Strength of recommendation (SOR)
A Good-quality patient-oriented evidence
B Inconsistent or limited-quality patient-oriented evidence
C Consensus, usual practice, opinion, disease-oriented evidence, case series
As the volume of patient-generated home data increases, there is a risk of information overload. Thus, meaningful summarization of the data is required to enable the physician, patient, and/or pharmacist to take prompt and effective action.
CORRESPONDENCE
Sonal J. Patil, MD, MSPH, Curtis W. and Ann H. Long Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, MA306 Medical Sciences Building, DC032.00 Columbia, MO 65212; patilso@health.missouri.edu.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors are grateful to Dr. David R. Mehr for his valuable expertise in editing and proofreading this manuscript.
