Research article

Does the routine use of global coronary heart disease risk scores translate into clinical benefits or harms? A systematic review of the literature

Stacey L Sheridan¹^* and Eric Crespo²

¹ Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

² Division of Cardiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

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BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:60 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-60

Published: 20 March 2008

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Literature search strategy, literature search strategy

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Characteristics of studies addressing the clinical benefits of global risk scores, table summarizing study characteristics

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Characteristics of studies addressing the harms of global risk scores, table summarizing study characteristics

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