Although increased blood pressure is one of the most powerful predictors of cardiovascular morbidity, the prediction for the individual patient is relatively weak. One reason for this is the inherent variability of blood pressure and the distortions associated with clinic measurement. It is widely accepted that blood pressure measured in the clinic commonly overestimates pressure measured in no...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Patient preference for their doctor's attire can influence their assessment of the quality of care. Most patients prefer specialists and hospital-based physicians to wear white coats, but evidence from general practitioner (GP) practices is lacking. We aimed to assess patient preference for GPs to wear white coats in Switzerland. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional su...

Percentage of white coat color was measured on registration certificates of 4293 Holstein heifers on eight dairy farms in Florida. Measurements of white percentage were by visual evaluation on one side of the upper body (head, neck, and trunk) only and obtained in increments of 5%. Mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and skewness of white percentage were 25.6, 15, 0, 26.9, and 1.03. Distrib...

BACKGROUND Congenital sensorineural deafness has been reported frequently in experimental mixed-breed white cats but there is a paucity of data on occurrence of deafness in client-owned pure-breed white cats. OBJECTIVE To describe hearing status in client-owned pure-breed white cats. ANIMALS Eighty-four pure-breed client-owned cats with white coat color of 10 registered breeds presented for...

OBJECTIVE To determine the level and type of microbial contamination present on the white coats of doctors in order to assess the risk of transmission of pathogenic micro-organisms by this route in a hospital setting. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of the bacterial contamination of white coats in a general hospital. SETTING East Birmingham Hospital, an urban general hospital with 800 beds. ...