Impact of lowering the risk threshold for statin treatment on statin prescribing: a descriptive study in English primary care.

CONCLUSION: Currently available evidence, which only considers people with coded risk scores in their medical record, indicates the guideline change had a large impact on statin prescribing. However, that analysis likely suffers from selection bias. This new evidence indicates only a modest impact of the guideline change. Further qualitative research about the lack of response to the guideline change is needed.
PMID: 33020170 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The British Journal of General Practice - October 5, 2020 Category: Primary Care Authors: Pate A, Emsley R, van Staa T Tags: Br J Gen Pract Source Type: research