We evaluated the time required and the intrinsic and extrinsic costs of the four methods. Methods: We carried out a comparative effectiveness study of four methods of diagnosing hypertension in 500 participants with a clinical suspicion of hypertension from three primary healthcare (PHC) centers in Barcelona city (Spain). We studied four diagnostic methods: a new 1 h-automated office blood pressure (BP) monitoring, office BP measurement, home BP monitoring, and awake-ambulatory BP monitoring. Objectives: Studies of the diagnosis of hypertension have emphasized long-term cost-effectiveness analysis, but the patient experience and costs of blood pressure monitoring methods at the diagnosis stage remain unclear. 4School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.3Department of Statistics and Operational Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.2Primary Healthcare Transversal Research Group, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
Luis González-de Paz 1,2*, Belchin Kostov 3, Xavier Freixa 1, Carmen Herranz 1,2, Elena Lagarda 1, María Ortega 1, Elisa Pérez 1, Silvia Porcar 1, Eva Sánchez 1, Montserrat Serrato 1, Ingrid Vidiella 1 and Antoni Sisó-Almirall 1,2,4
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