[Measurement of blood pressure in consultation and automated mesurement (BPTru(®)) to evaluate the white coat effect].

Background And Objective: White coat effect (WCE) is one of the main bias that can affect office blood pressure (BP) measurement. Therefore, it is a factor must be considered in hypertensives to avoid mistakes in diagnosis and/or treatment. Employment of automated office BP (AOBP) devices could diminish that effect.

[Self-audit and tutor accreditation].

Objective: To describe the experience of using self-audit (SA) as a means of accrediting family and community medicine tutors, to analyse the knowledge that the tutors have on this self-assessment methodology, and to record their opinions on this method.

Design: Retrospective descriptive study and analysis of an opinion questionnaire.

Setting: Family and community medicine teaching units (TU) in Catalonia.

[Is the action taken by Catalonian primary care doctors adequate in view of the insufficient reduction in blood pressure levels in hypertensive patients? DISEHTAC-2001 study].

Objective: To determine the attitude to therapy of primary care staff in view of the lack of reduction in blood pressure. To describe the most commonly used antihypertensives.

Design: Descriptive, longitudinal, retrospective study during the year 2001.