[Is blood pressure being measured?]

The blood pressure measure is part of the physical exam and it should be accomplished in every medical consultation. To verify the blood pressure measured in the accomplished medical consultations record of first they were consulted it consults 500 patient's ambulatorial being 335 (67%) coming of medical and surgical clinics and 165 (33%) of the gynecological and obstetric clinics. The blood pressure was written down in 39% of the accomplished consultations (135 + 32 mm Hg 85 + 19 mm Hg), and 11% of this annotations the pressure diastólica was above 90 mm Hg. In relation to the previous diagnosis of hypertension it was verified that: a) in 62% of the records there was not this information; b) 20% referred to have hypertension, and in 79% of these the arterial pressure was scored; and c) 18% referred not to have hypertension and 46% of these had registration of the arterial pressure. Therefore, most of the patients didn't have its logged arterial pressure.