HF Readmission Risk Flagged by Nurses' Bedside Lung Scans
It doesn't take a doctor to catch congestion
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It doesn't take a doctor to catch congestion
By mid-2021, volunteers aged between 18 and 75 years will be recruited for an accelerated clinical trial of two 'next generation' vaccines against...
Schwartz and colleagues analyzed data from 408 participants who had a two-dimensional echocardiogram and BP measurement with all three techniques. Data from different BP assessments were summarized as means and analyzed for reliability and correlation with LVMI, a measure of hypertension-related end-organ damage. Reliability of systolic and diastolic blood pressures, respectively, was 0.938 and 0.918 for 1 week of resting daytime home monitoring, 0.894 and 0.847 for office monitoring with mercury sphygmomanometry, and 0.846 and 0.843 for 24-hour ambulatory monitoring. Correlations among offic...