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Tuesday, 07 September 2010

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eJournal Club

 

The ACADEME eJournal club is a regular online discussion forum for discussing how scientific evidence might impact our everyday clinical management of patients at risk of cardiovascular events.

In each journal club, we’ll be joined by an author or investigator from a recently published paper looking at aspects of cardiovascular risk. That might mean that we’ll be discussing a new guideline, a new cardiovascular risk estimator, or an important new clinical trial.

The views expressed by the discussants are their personal and clinical opinions and don't necessarily reflect the opinions of the Steering Committee or ACADEME.

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eJournal Club

To view the eJournal Club you must be a health care professional and register with us first.
Date : 25 May 2009

In this eJournal Club we are joined by Dr Ron McWalter, Consultant Physician at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Institute of Cardiovascular Research at the University of Dundee. Dr MacWalter knows a great deal about ASSIGN as it was developed by many of his University colleagues and is now widely used in Scotland.

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

  • Describe the basic principle of cardiovascular risk scoring systems
  • Describe the components of the ASSIGN risk scoring system