Response: Re: Blood Pressure Checks for Diagnosing Hypertension: Health Professionals' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practice

[摘要] This letter to the editor in response to ourarticle “Blood Pressure Checks for DiagnosingHypertension: Health Professionals’ Knowledge, Beliefs,and Practice” was of great interest to us.The authors of this letter conducted a quasi-experimental study where nurse and physician knowledge ofambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) wasmeasured pre and post a training intervention.1Knowledge was low pre training, with substantialimprovement post training. The study took place inSpain, a country where ABPM is more commonly performed than the US. The training session took place ata conference on hypertension, and the nurses andphysicians that attended may have not been representative of nurses and physicians working in typical primarycare clinics. Furthermore in the US, medical assistantsare much more common part of the workforce in primary care than nurses. Medical assistants receive lesstraining than nurses.

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