Jeff Linder @jefflinder.bsky.social · May 21 For home blood pressure monitoring, asking patients to get 2 blood pressures twice a day for 7 days for a total of 28 readings, seems perfectly designed to make it not get done at all. I ask patients to do 1 blood pressure, morning and night for 3 days. @paulnwilliams.bsky.social
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For those 6 blood pressures -- just 6! -- I give them the AHA HBPM instructions and a link to validatebp.com. Is there really that much of a marginal gain of asking patients to get 28 blood pessures over 7 days versus 6 readings over 3 days? Happy to give up precision for ease and feasibility.