[Measurement of arterial pressure by an automatic method. Comparison of various devices for automatic measurement]

A comparative study of three Dinamap 845 instruments was carried out in order to find out whether the use of several automated blood pressure recorders constitutes a major source of variations in epidemiological studies. The three instruments were compared by means of a variant analysis model and proved to have virtually the same accuracy. Only one of them gave a slightly different diastolic pressure reading. No matter how useful are instruments for automated blood pressure measurement, comparisons between several recorders of the same type and regular testing for accuracy seem to be necessary in epidemiological studies.