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High proportions of identical sequential readings or terminal digit preference is an indicator of problems with the measurements, usually reflecting the lack of proper training.
Some observers also have a tendency to avoid or prefer certain blood pressure readings or, when sequential readings are taken, to provide identical readings [ 22- 24].
On sequential readings, PAsats and CVsats trended in the same direction on 75% occasions; however the greatest discrepancy was between the 4 and 8-hour readings, when concordance was only found 55% of the time.
Sequential readings in each patient were grouped together into pairs, which gave 1085 paired readings (47 readings were excluded because they were either not paired or unidentifiable to a particular patient, or the patient had fewer than two readings taken).
Trending ability was assessed by determination of correlation coefficients between ∆CITPTD and ∆CIPFX, by a modified Bland-Altman analysis using the change in CI between sequential readings, a four quadrant analysis and polar plots.
This assessment included comparison of the national survey protocols with the EHES protocol, evaluation of the proportion of missing data for each data item, proportion of identical sequential readings and the proportion of terminal digits.
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The BpTRU device is a fully automated sphygmomanometer that takes six sequential BP readings at pre-set intervals; it automatically discards the first reading and produces an average BP from the last five readings.
At each time point, five sequential SBP readings were taken for each mouse, and the mean value of the three median readings was calculated and recorded.
We collected 250 sequential RSS readings from AC2 and depict them in Figure 2 in the form of a normalized histogram.
Two sequential IOP readings (the right eye first) were measured.
Also, two sequential IOP readings (the right eye first) were measured.
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