An observational study of how clinicians use cardiovascular risk assessment to inform statin prescribing decisions.

CONCLUSION: New Zealand primary care clinicians' statin prescribing decisions appear to be influenced by patients' predicted CVD risk. However, other factors are associated with increased statin dispensing independent of CVD risk score.
PMID: 28981492 [PubMed - in process]

Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - October 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research