Can improved software facilitate the wider use of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in clinical practice?
GROUND: 24-h ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) is now recognized as being indispensable in the diagnosis and management of hypertension. The technique must, therefore, be made available in primary care, but in doing so it must be recognized that unfamiliarity with the technique may lead to misinterpretation of data. OBJECTIVE: To facilitate the wider application of ABPM, especially in primary care, we examined the features that would facilitate the development of a standardized user-friendly software program for the presentation, analysis and interpretation of data. METHODS AND RESULTS: The following features were considered essential to any software program for ABPM: standardized plots of 24-h profiles; computer interpretation of ABPM data and patterns; a user-friendly one-page report, flexible statistical analysis, and the facility to group data and to export data for audit and research analysis. The dabl ABPM program incorporating these features was introduced into the Bl
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