Can commercially available heart rate monitors also be used for clinical applications which study HR accuracy?

A paper on which the cardiologist Dr. Milind Desai from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio was last author was published in: Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy in 2019: Accuracy of commercially available heart rate monitors in athletes: a prospective study Selena R Pasadyn, Mohamad Soudan, Marc Gillinov, Penny Houghtaling, Dermot Phelan, Nicole Gillinov, Barbara Bittel, Milind Y …