Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of blood pressure screening methods with consideration of rescreening intervals: a systematic review for the US Preventive …

MA Piper, CV Evans, BU Burda… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
Background: Elevated blood pressure (BP) is the largest contributing risk factor to all-cause
and cardiovascular mortality. Purpose: To update a systematic review on the benefits and …

Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients in the emergency department with asymptomatic elevated blood pressure

SJ Wolf, B Lo, RD Shih, MD Smith… - Annals of emergency …, 2013 - annemergmed.com
Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients in the
Emergency Department With Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure - Annals of Emergency …

Screening for high blood pressure in adults: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement

AL Siu… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
Description: Update of the 2007 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reaffirmation
recommendation statement on screening for high blood pressure in adults. Methods: The …

[HTML][HTML] Controlled clinical trial of canine therapy versus usual care to reduce patient anxiety in the emergency department

JA Kline, MA Fisher, KL Pettit, CT Linville, AM Beck - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objective Test if therapy dogs reduce anxiety in emergency department (ED) patients.
Methods In this controlled clinical trial (NCT03471429), medically stable, adult patients were …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation and treatment of severe asymptomatic hypertension

CS Kessler, Y Joudeh - American family physician, 2010 - aafp.org
Poorly controlled hypertension is a common finding in the outpatient setting. When patients
present with severely elevated blood pressure (ie, systolic blood pressure of 180 mm Hg or …

Hypertension management in emergency departments

J Miller, C McNaughton, K Joyce… - American journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Elevated blood pressure (BP) is pervasive among patients that visit
emergency departments (EDs) for their care. METHODS In this review article, we outline the …

Number of measurements needed to obtain a reliable estimate of home blood pressure: results from the improving the detection of hypertension study

NA Bello, JE Schwartz, IM Kronish… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Obtaining out‐of‐clinic blood pressure (BP) measurements to confirm a
diagnosis of hypertension is recommended before initiating treatment. There are few empiric …

Feasibility of emergency department–initiated, mobile health blood pressure intervention: an exploratory, randomized clinical trial

WJ Meurer, M Dome, D Brown… - Academic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives We aimed to assess the feasibility of a text messaging intervention by
determining the proportion of emergency department (ED) patients who responded to …

Acute air pollution exposure and blood pressure at delivery among women with and without hypertension

T Männistö, P Mendola, D Liu… - American journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Chronic air pollution exposure increases risk for hypertensive disorders of
pregnancy, but the effect of acute air pollution exposure on blood pressure during …

[HTML][HTML] The burden of hypertension and diabetes in an emergency department in Northern Tanzania

JT Hertz, FM Sakita, P Manavalan, DB Madut… - Ethnicity & …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods A retrospective review of adult ED patients in northern Tanzania was performed
from September 2017 through March 2018. Hypertension was defined as documented …