Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland, Yana Vinogradova, John Robson, Margaret May, Peter Brindle, Bonneux, Derivation and validation of QRISK, a new cardiovascular disease risk score for the United ...

In 2007, the BMJ published research showing that the new QRISK score was a more accurate measure of how many UK adults are at risk of developing heart disease and which adults are most likely to ...

However, in 2007, the BMJ published research showing that the new QRISK® score was a more accurate measure of how many UK adults are at risk of developing heart disease and which adults are most ...

Additionally, for the 10% of patients in this dataset classified at highest risk with QResearch or QRISK, only 18,385 (14.5%) were at high risk on both measures.

The QRISK algorithm was derived using a cohort of 1.28 million patients aged 35–74 years from 318 practices across the UK, who did not have diabetes or existing cardiovascular disease.

Objective: To develop and validate version two of the QRISK cardiovascular disease risk algorithm (QRISK2) to provide accurate estimates of cardiovascular risk in patients from different ethnic groups ...

The tools also underperformed in predicting risk in osteoarthritis patients. QRISK-3 and Framingham more accurately predicted risk in patients with AS versus those with RA, PsA, and OA.

IT system supplier EMIS will continue offering the integrated QRisk calculator until June next year, after GPs raised concerns over safety and workload. In November EMIS notified users of their ...