Decision support: Stroke risk in atrial fibrillation
In their Chest 2010 article, Lip et al described a new risk stratification schema for assessing stroke risk in atrial fibrillation. It is called the CHA2DS2-VASc score, which is an improved version of the classic CHADS2-score. The new score consists of these items:
Besides a scoring systems and corresponding risk rates, the authors also propose a flowchart that offers decision support on whether to prescribe oral anticoagulants:
Fortunately, the good thing of NeuroMind 2 is that it offers both functions for medical calculations and clinical decision support. So here are some screenshots:
And based on your input, you will get all information that is available. This means the CHA2DS2-VASc score, corresponding risk rates and an advise based on the flowchart whether to prescribe oral anticoagulants or not:
Like Einstein said: we should try to make things as simple as possible (but not any simpler)!
More screenshots are available from the gallery below:
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