Online CVD Guidelines
Click here if you are a patient and your GP is participating in the CHAT-GP trial.
Click here if you work in a general practice and your PHN has invited you to participate in the CHAT-GP trial.
Enhanced Guidelines
The online Australian CVD risk assessment and management guidelines have been linked to evidence summaries and patient resources via the following webpages:
- Risk assessment algorithm
- Management guidelines for patients at:
- low risk
- moderate risk
- high risk
- Resources: view/rate evidence summaries & patient information
- FAQ: explains how the website content was developed & the evidence behind the risk calculator and intervention estimates
- QI&CPD exercise: view/discuss patient cases & register for an audit and feedback exercise (currently in development)
Patient Risk Calculator
A new interactive version of the Australian 5 year CVD risk calculator to guide discussion about management options and create patient decision aids:
- Patient risk calculator based on 2012 National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA) guideline algorithms
- Results shown on a graph to explain current risk and future risk in 10 years if nothing changes
- Interactive decision aid to explore effect of different lifestyle and medication options on risk
- Printable risk report and decision aid for patients (choose 1 selected option, or all 9 options)