Auscultatory BP: Still the Gold Standard

It is reasonable to expect that when a patient or an office purchases a blood pressure (BP) monitor declared valid by the AAMI and BHS standards, it will provide accurate blood pressure measurements for that/all individual(s). Under the current validation criteria, such reliance may be unwarranted and it is possible that more than half of patients will have an average error greater than 5 mm Hg, and more than one in four will have an average error greater than 10 mm Hg