A universal standard for the validation of blood pressure measuring devices
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: : In the last 30 years, several organizations, such as the US Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the British Hypertension Society, the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Working Group on Blood Pressure (BP) Monitoring and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have developed protocols for clinical validation of BP measuring devices. However, it is recognized that science, as well as patients, consumers and manufacturers would be best served if all BP measuring devices were assessed for accuracy according to an agreed single validation protocol that had global acceptance. Therefore, an international initiative was taken by AAMI, ESH and ISO experts who agreed to develop a universal standard for device validation. This statement presents the key aspects of a validation procedure, which were agreed by the AAMI, ESH and ISO representatives as the basis for a single universal validation protocol. As soon as the AAMI/ESH/ISO standard is fully developed, this will be regarded as the single universal standard and will replace all other previous standards/protocols.
Source: Journal of Hypertension
Authors: George S. Stergiou, Bruce Alpert, Stephan Mieke, Roland Asmar, Neil Atkins, Siegfried Eckert, Gerhard Frick, Bruce Friedman, Thomas Graßl, Tsutomu Ichikawa, John P. Ioannidis, Peter Lacy, Richard McManus, Alan Murray, Martin Myers, Paolo Palatini, Gianfranco Parati, David Quinn, Josh Sarkis, Andrew Shennan, Takashi Usuda, Jiguang Wang, Colin O. Wu, Eoin O’Brien
Institutions: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria General Hospital, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, General Electric (United States), Dräger (Germany), Omron (Japan), Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, National Institute for Health and Care Research, UCL Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, University of Oxford, Newcastle University, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, University of Padua, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, University of Milano-Bicocca, Welch Allyn (United States), St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, Nihon Kohden (Japan), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, University College Dublin
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2787867538