Great job -
I have shared this with the evidence-based health care lead faculty in each of the 15 teaching sites so in theory that should reach over three hundred family medicine residents
I will now try to get it to the medical students
Martin
On 2013-09-25, at 11:57 AM, "McCormack, James" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone.
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> 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
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> http://bestsciencemedicine.com/chd
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Would love feedback.
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> Thanks in advance for giving it a go.
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> James McCormack, BSc(Pharm), Pharm D
> Professor
> Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
> UBC, Vancouver, Canada
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> therapeuticseducation.org
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> 604-603-7898
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