Availability and quality of coronary heart disease family history in primary care medical records: implications for cardiovascular risk assessment

Background: The potential to use data on family history of premature disease to assess disease risk is increasingly recognised, particularly in scoring risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). However the quality of family health information in primary care records is unclear. Aim: To assess the avai...

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Main Authors: Dhiman, Paula, Kai, Joe, Horsfall, Laura, Walters, Kate, Qureshi, Nadeem
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2546/