The Veterans Affairs Cardiac Risk Score: Recalibrating the ASCVD Score for Applied Use

BACKGROUND: Accurately estimating cardiovascular risk is fundamental to good decision-making in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, but risk scores developed in one population often perform poorly in dissimilar populations. We sought to examine whether a large integrated health system can use t...

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Published in:Med Care
Main Authors: Sussman, Jeremy B., Wiitala, Wyndy L., Zawistowski, Matthew, Hofer, Timothy P., Bentley, Douglas, Hayward, Rodney A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561663/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28763374
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000000781
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