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slaymaker1907

One thing that I think would dramatically improve the routine screening numbers at doctors' offices would be to try and take it after the patient has been sitting down for a few minutes waiting for the doctor after the other vitals have been taken. If I'm going to sit around for 15m+ anyways, why not use some of that time to let BP stabilize?

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Because it's a practically impossible workflow: economics dictate that on duty your time should already be filled up doing something productive.

If anything, the usefulness of an office BP is to screen only people whose heads or hearts are about to blow up from a crazy high reading. Current guidelines now recommend people keep logs at home.

I manually recheck BPs myself if the readings are off the charts.

Robotics in the future could help the workflow though.

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