Assessing cardiovascular risk in the 10-minute consultation
Safia Debar, Simon de Lusignan, Juan Carlos Kaski
Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity which can be managed successfully in primary care. However, despite the quality of the evidence base and the universal use of practice-based information systems that can flag suboptimally managed patients and calculate risk for individuals opportunistically, there remains a gap in the primary care management of cardiovascular disease.
