Trial reportThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2000
Estimation of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients in primary care.
Trial report in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cardiovascular high-risk patients--treat to protect, but whom?Medscape journal of medicine · 2008Pooled it
- Does the routine use of global coronary heart disease risk scores translate into clinical benefits or harms? A systematic review of the literature.BMC health services research · 2008Pooled it
- Framingham-based tools to calculate the global risk of coronary heart disease: a systematic review of tools for clinicians.Journal of general internal medicine · 2003Pooled it
- A score for predicting risk of death from cardiovascular disease in adults with raised blood pressure, based on individual patient data from randomised controlled trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001Pooled it
- Providing clinicians with a patient's 10-year cardiovascular risk improves their statin prescribing: a true experiment using clinical vignettes.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2013Trial
- Mixed methods evaluation of targeted case finding for cardiovascular disease prevention using a stepped wedged cluster RCT.BMC public health · 2012Trial
- The Fremantle Primary Prevention Study: a multicentre randomised trial of absolute cardiovascular risk reduction.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012Trial
- CRISTOPH - a cluster-randomised intervention study to optimise the treatment of patients with hypertension in General Practice.BMC family practice · 2008Trial
- Cardiovascular risk profile and risk stratification of the hypertensive population attended by general practitioners and specialists in Spain. The CONTROLRISK study.Journal of human hypertension · 2007Trial
- Improving event prediction using general practitioner clinical judgement in a digital risk stratification model: a pilot study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
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- Clinical utility of a novel coronary heart disease risk-assessment test to further classify intermediate-risk patients.Clinical cardiology · 2013Article
- Subclinical cardiovascular disease assessment in persons with diabetes.Current cardiology reports · 2013Review
- Stroke risk calculators in the era of electronic health records linked to administrative databases.Stroke · 2013Review
- Coronary risk assessment among intermediate risk patients using a clinical and biomarker based algorithm developed and validated in two population cohorts.Current medical research and opinion · 2012Article
- Cardiovascular risk scores do not account for the effect of treatment: a review.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2011Review
- Diagnostic classification in patients with suspected deep venous thrombosis: physicians' judgement or a decision rule?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010Article
- Perceptions of risk: understanding cardiovascular disease.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2010Article
- Accuracy of self-perception of cardiovascular risk in the community.Journal of vascular and interventional neurology · 2008Article
- Barriers to apply cardiovascular prediction rules in primary care: a postal survey.BMC family practice · 2007Article
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Abstract
Assessment of absolute cardiovascular risk is a rational method of managing hypertension. General practitioners and practice nurses were asked to estimate absolute risk in a group of elderly hypertensive patients during clinical practice. Risk was correctly estimated in 21% of patients, underestimated in 63% of patients, and overestimated in 16% of patients. Unless primary health care professionals use cardiovascular risk charts or tables, treatment decisions in primary care may not be made against realistic estimates of patients' susceptibility to cardiovascular disease.
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