Hi Everyone.
At the risk of having people say "Did we really need yet another CVD risk calculator", I thought I would let the group know about one I recently developed. It is on the web and free to use and it can be found at
http://bestsciencemedicine.com/chd
The reason I put this together is because I felt none of the calculators I could find did everything I wanted them to do. I needed a calculator that allowed me to
1) easily and quickly show patients (with numbers and happy faces) what risk factors do to CVD risk
2) figure out a ballpark estimate of a patients risk for different CVD end points
3) see what specific therapies have evidence of CVD benefit or lack thereof
4) provide a reasonable estimate of benefit and show the benefit as baseline risk, risk if treated and NNT
5) present a quick synopsis of the harms of therapies
6) not have thresholds and treatment guidelines that get in the way of shared decision making
7) do this all on one page
No idea if what I have created effectively does this but it is a start. Hopefully it is fairly intuitive but there is an FAQ section for the calculator that discusses all the gory details and a video that explains how I think it should be used.
Would love feedback.
Thanks in advance for giving it a go.
James McCormack, BSc(Pharm), Pharm D
Professor
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
UBC, Vancouver, Canada
therapeuticseducation.org
604-603-7898
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