Clinical scores in primary care
Clinical scores in primary care
Clinical scoring systems are algorithms designed to predict outcomes, aid decision making, support treatment options, manage clinical risk or improve efficiency. The term clinical scoring system is known interchangeably as clinical decision rule, prediction algorithm, clinical prediction tool, risk score or scoring tool.[1] Medicine is not short of these with recent searches estimating that over 250 000 are available to use.[2] Despite the proliferation of algorithms to inform clinical care, this has not been matched with evidence of their utility. The uncertainty amongst clinicians about their efficiency and accuracy, alongside growing primary care workloads in the limited ten-minute consultation, may contribute to low utility. As demonstrated in the linked paper, there is the additional complication of multiple scores being available for the same condition. So how do we decide on whether to use a clinical score and what makes one better than another?
primary care, clinical scores
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Dambha-Miller, Hajira
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Little, Paul
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Everitt, Hazel
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April 2020
Dambha-Miller, Hajira
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Little, Paul
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Everitt, Hazel
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Dambha-Miller, Hajira, Little, Paul and Everitt, Hazel
(2020)
Clinical scores in primary care.
British Journal of General Practice, 70 (693), , [163].
(doi:10.3399/bjgp20X708941).
Abstract
Clinical scoring systems are algorithms designed to predict outcomes, aid decision making, support treatment options, manage clinical risk or improve efficiency. The term clinical scoring system is known interchangeably as clinical decision rule, prediction algorithm, clinical prediction tool, risk score or scoring tool.[1] Medicine is not short of these with recent searches estimating that over 250 000 are available to use.[2] Despite the proliferation of algorithms to inform clinical care, this has not been matched with evidence of their utility. The uncertainty amongst clinicians about their efficiency and accuracy, alongside growing primary care workloads in the limited ten-minute consultation, may contribute to low utility. As demonstrated in the linked paper, there is the additional complication of multiple scores being available for the same condition. So how do we decide on whether to use a clinical score and what makes one better than another?
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 February 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 March 2020
Published date: April 2020
Keywords:
primary care, clinical scores
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439177
ISSN: 0960-1643
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