[The preference for the final digits in blood pressure determination: a continuing education experience].

The CRONICAT program is developing a Project for the Control of Hypertension in three areas of central Catalonia. In the analysis of the blood pressure data of the registry of patients from this project, carried out 18 months after its beginning, it was found that a high proportion of blood pressure (BP) readings showed 0 or 5 as the terminal digit (57.3% and 16.