Office Blood Pressure Measurement With an Automated Device

Mercy Health Ohio

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Pressure

Treatments: Other: BP measurement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03460249

17-015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators plan to determine if the sequence of blood pressure measurements from the sitting position to the table and vice versa has an impact on the measurements.

Full description

The investigators plan to measure blood pressure (BP) in 30 consecutive individuals presenting to the St. Elizabeth Boardman Family Health Center. The sample will include patients presenting for their scheduled appointment. Following informed consent (see attached informed consent form), the participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. In group A, the sequence of BP measurements will be table position (TP) followed by recommended chair position (RCP) and then, after a 30-minutes rest, the BP will be measured again in the reverse sequence, RCP then TP. In group B, the sequence will begin with BP measurements in the RCP then TP, followed by 30-minutes rest and then measurements will be repeated in the reverse order. The assignment of participants to groups A and B will be random. The BP will be measured twice in each of the positions described above, according the the accepted standard technique, using a digital blood pressure monitor, the OMRON HEM-907 XL.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients presenting to the Family Medicine Center age between 18 and 80

Exclusion criteria

• Decline to participate for any reason
• Experiencing acute pain or febrile illness
• Pregnant
• Inability to get on the examination table
• Atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia or tachycardia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

BP table or chair, systolic or diastolic

Active Comparator group

Description:

record the BP obtained in each patient position

Treatment:

Other: BP measurement

as above

Active Comparator group

Description:

as above

Treatment:

Other: BP measurement