Sarah A. Twichell1, Corinna J. Rea1, Patrice Melvin2, Andrew J. Capraro1, Joshua C. Mandel1, Michael A. Ferguson1, Daniel J. Nigrin1, Kenneth D. Mandl1, Dionne Graham2, Justin P. Zachariah3
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 484-490, 2017, DOI:10.1111/chd.12469
Abstract Background: Recognition of high blood pressure (BP) in children is poor, partly due to the need to
compute age-sex-height referenced percentiles. This study examined the change in abnormal BP
recognition before versus after the introduction of an electronic health record (EHR) app designed
to calculate BP percentiles with a training lecture.
Methods and results: Clinical data were extracted on all ambulatory, non-urgent encounters
for children 3–18 years old seen in primary care, endocrinology, cardiology, or nephrology clinics at an urban, academic hospital in the year before and the year after app introduction.
Outpatients with at least 1 BP above the… More >
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