Providing clinicians with a patient’s 10-year cardiovascular risk improves their statin prescribing: a true experiment using clinical vignettes

BACKGROUND: Statins are effective for primary prevention of cardiovascular (CV) disease, the leading cause of death in the world. Multinational guidelines emphasize CV risk as an important factor for optimal statin prescribing. However, it’s not clear how primary care providers (PCPs) use this infor...

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Autores principales: Sekaran, Nishant K, Sussman, Jeremy B, Xu, Anna, Hayward, Rodney A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24148829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-13-90

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24148829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-13-90

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