Patient reactions to a web-based cardiovascular risk calculator in type 2 diabetes: a qualitative...

Patient reactions to a web-based cardiovascular risk calculator in type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study in primary

care

by Tom Nolan, Charlotte Dack, Kingshuk Pal, Jamie Ross, Fiona A Stevenson, Richard Peacock, Mike Pearson, David Spiegelhalter, Michael Sweeting, and

Elizabeth Murray

BJGPVolume 65(632):e152-e160

March 2, 2015

©2015 by British Journal of General Practice

Information entry page in risk calculator.

Tom Nolan et al. Br J Gen Pract 2015;65:e152-e160


The Healthy Years format shows the average age of survival without a heart attack or stroke based on the user’s profile.



Heart age compares the user’s heart age with an average person with type 2 diabetes of the same age, sex, and ethnic group.



Outlook plots age against percentage chance of survival free of heart attack or stroke.



Risk By Age plots age against risk of having a heart attack or stroke.



Outcome shows 10-year outcomes for ‘100 hundred people like you’ (the time horizon can be changed by the user).



Balance shows what is expected to happen to ‘100 people like you’ in 10 years who either carry on as usual (on the left) or who make the interventions (on the right) selected in the interventions

panel (see Figure 2).



Shows the percentage chance of having a heart attack or stroke within 10 years, without (red bar) and with (pink bar) selected interventions and compared with other people with diabetes (grey

bar).



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