Comparison of estimates and calculations of risk of coronary heart disease by doctors and nurses using different calculation tools in general practice: cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effect of using different risk calculation tools on how general practitioners and practice nurses evaluate the risk of coronary heart disease with clinical data routinely available in patients' records.

Design

Subjective estimates of the risk of coronary heart disease and results of four different methods of calculation of risk were compared with each other and a reference standard that had been calculated with the Framingham equation; calculations were based on a sample of patients' records, randomly selected from groups at risk of coronary heart disease.

Setting

General practices in central England.

Participants

18 general practitioners and 18 practice nurses.

Main outcome measures

Agreement of results of risk estimation and ris

SUBMITTER: McManus RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC65668 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature