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January 1, 2021Russian Journal of Preventive Medicine

Overall accuracy of physicians' cardiovascular risk assessments was 54%, with cardiologists being more accurate than therapists (62% vs 46% for SCORE).

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Why the study?

Cardiovascular disease prevention challenges relate to varying methods and accuracy of cardiovascular risk assessment in clinical practice.

Population

252 physicians across 3 regions of Russia evaluating 30 prepared clinical cases each

Comparison

Assessment across 4 risk scales: SCORE, Framingham, PROCAM, and Russian lipid guidelines

Design

Cross-sectional survey study

Authors

DGD. V. GavrilovAGA. V. GusevANA.V. Nikulina

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Overview

Physician cardiovascular risk assessments show limited real-world accuracy; hypothesis-generating for training or automation interventions in prospective studies.

Structured PICO

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Population
252 physicians from 3 regions of Russia (77% therapists, 15% cardiologists, 9% other specialists), mean age 38 years, mean work experience 13 years.
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Intervention
Assessment of cardiovascular risk using 4 scales (SCORE, Framingham, PROCAM, Russian guidelines) on 30 clinical cases.
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Outcome
Accuracy of cardiovascular risk calculations

Physicians in real clinical practice demonstrate significant inaccuracies in calculating cardiovascular risk, highlighting the need for improved training and potentially automated risk calculation tools.

Cite This Study

Gavrilov et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1a7ddf77ec05d9a7b89c4chttps://doi.org/10.17116/profmed20212404169
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