QRISK2 gets more support
The heart disease risk score QRISK2 is more accurate at identifying people in the UK at high risk of cardiovascular disease than the Framingham risk equation, newly published research has concluded. Statisticians from Oxford University compared QRISK2 with its predecessor QRISK1 and with the version of Framingham previously recommended by the National Institute for Health […]
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Records can be used to identify CVD risk
Identifying patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease through electronic primary care records would be just as effective in preventing CVD as the universal screening programme proposed by the government, researchers have concluded. Dr Simon Griffin and colleagues from the Medical Research Council’s epidemiology unit in Cambridge looked at different screening strategies for identifying and […]
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QRISK benefits from NICE decision
Demand for QRISK software has increased following The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s decision to drop its backing for the Framingham score as the tool of choice for cardiovascular risk estimation. The creators of QRISK said that it was experiencing a “marked increase in demand” following the change in the NICE guidance last […]
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Spacelabs dabl in CVD management
Irish cardiovascular disease management systems developer and supplier, dabl, has partnered with Spacelabs UK, a medical equipment company to provide a complete blood pressure monitor and 24 hour blood pressure software solution. As part of the agreement, Spacelabs will promote and sell the dabl ABMP 24 hour blood pressure software along with their ambulatory blood […]
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New QRISK2 for heart disease launched
A new version of the QRISK software which identifies patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been released for clinical use. QRISK2 uses a new CVD equation to estimate an individual’s risk of developing heart disease over the next ten years, drawing on analysis of primary care data from practices using the […]
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QRisk2 helps to predict risk of heart attacks
Researchers have used anonymised GP records to develop a new method for assessing whether people are at risk from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which they claim will improve national diagnosis rates and better identify those at risk among black and minority ethnic groups. QRisk2 is a new equation developed to help doctors identify those most at risk […]
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QRisk could cut heart disease
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended that the QRisk formula for identifying those most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) replace the current guidance in England and Wales QRisk is an online calculator which works out a patient’s risk of getting CVD, created by doctors and academics from the QResearch board […]
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IT and data quality incentive for Scottish GPs
Scottish GP practices will be able to earn an average of £3,800 over the next six months from an IT and data quality incentive scheme. The newly agreed directed enhanced service (DES) on benching information governance and data quality is to run from October to the end of March 2008. The one-off DES is being […]
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