Screening for Hypertension in the INpatient Environment(SHINE): a protocol for a prospective study of diagnostic accuracy among adult hospital patients

Introduction:A significant percentage of patients admitted to hospital have undiagnosed hypertension. However, present hypertension guidelines in the UK, Europe and USA do not define a blood pressure threshold at which hospital inpatients should be considered at risk of hypertension, outside of the...

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Auteurs principaux: Armitage, L, Mahdi, A, Lawson, B, Roman, C, Fanshawe, T, Tarassenko, L, Farmer, A, Watkinson, P
Format: Journal article
Publié: BMJ Publishing Group 2019