Blood Pressure Measurements with Different Currently Available Methods in Elderly Hypertensive Hospitalized Patients: A Real World Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Diagnostic agreement s, specificity, and likelihood ratios) between different measures (nurse, doctor, self-measurement, beat-to-beat) in predicting ambulatory blood pressure in hospital setting.

High 24-h SBP-ABPM; (>135mm Hg)	Sensitivity; (%)	Specificity; (%)	Positive Predictive Values; (%)	Negative Predictive Values; (%)	Correctly classified; (%)	False Positive; (%)	False Negative; (%)	K; statistic
Physician	63.6	82.6	72.4	67.5	74.7	27.6	24.0	0.428
Nurse	66.7	82.6	73.3	77.5	75.9	26.7	22.4	0.496
Patient	69.7	84.8	76.7	79.6	78.5	23.3	20.4	0.563
Beat –to-beat- Finometer	45.5	84.8	68.2	68.4	68.4	31.8	31.5	0.404
High 24-h diastolic blood pressure ABPM(>85mm Hg)
Physician	20.0	98.5	66.7	89.4	88.6	33.3	10.3	0.228
Nurse	40.0	97.1	66.7	91.8	89.8	33.3	8.2	0.451
Patient	30.0	98.5	75.0	90.7	89.9	25.0	9.3	0.412
Beat-to-beat Finometer	10.0	100.0	100.0	88.5	88.61	0	11.5	0.163
High 24-h SBP/DBP -ABPM
Physician	10.0	95.5	50.0	88.3	87.3	50.0	11.7	0.315
Nurse	40.00	95.5	57.1	91.7	88.6	42.9	8.3	0.466
Patient	30.0	97.10	60.0	90.5	88.6	40.0	9.46	0.441
Beat-to-beat Finometer	30.0	98.5	75.0	90.6	89.8	25.0	9.3	0.223