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Sources of Error in Office Blood Pressure Measurement

Roy N. Morcos, Kimbroe J. Carter, Frank Castro, Sumira Koirala, Deepti Sharma and Haroon Syed
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2019, 32 (5) 732-738; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.05.190085

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