Blood pressure monitoring
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Blood pressure monitoring · Dec 2009
Multicenter StudyEvaluation, management, and referral of elderly emergency department patients with elevated blood pressure.
To determine blood pressure (BP) reassessment rates and to describe the evaluation and outpatient referral rates of elderly emergency department (ED) patients with elevated BP. ⋯ Unlike other ED-based studies of adult hypertensive patients, BP reassessment in the elderly occurred in the majority. Referral and intervention rates, however, were low.