Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation The European risk score initiative

Información del proyecto

SCORE

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: BMH4983186

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Abril 1998

Fecha de finalización 31 Marzo 2001

Financiado con arreglo a

• Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of biomedicine and health, 1994-1998

Coste total

Sin datos

Aportación de la UE

Sin datos

Coordinado por

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Ireland

Objetivo

Objectives
The goal of the SCORE project is to ensure that coronary heart disease risk assessment in clinical practice in Europe accords with the available data on coronary risk in European countries. This entails the following objectives:
* assembling a pool of databases from major European studies of coronary risk;
* developing a coronary risk assessment system based on these databases;
* if necessary, producing specific systems for different European regions;
* integrating these results into the revised European Guidelines on Coronary Prevention.

Brief Description
The present European recommendations on coronary risk management in clinical practice rely on a risk assessment system based on US data. This project will make use of major European databases of cardiac risk factors and disease incidence. These represent a wealth of barely-exploited data which could serve as a basis for the accurate estimation of risk in European populations. The SCORE project will assemble large-scale European databases, and use these to construct a simple, easily used risk assessment system. Because levels of coronary risk differ throughout Europe, the system will be calibrated against a spectrum of European populations.
The project will also use cross-sectional data to estimate the health service impact of the systematic use of the risk assessment system in clinical practice, within the framework of the European Guidelines. This analysis will facilitate health service planning in relation to coronary prevention in clinical practice.
The project will take place over three years, and will make use of a range of recently-developed statistical techniques to ensure optimum risk assessment. The results will be disseminated as a set of simple, easy-to-use physician guidelines. They will also be disseminated on the World Wide Web in a format that can be browsed using freely-available free computer software.
Keywords
Coronary Heart Disease, Risk Factors, Risk Assessment, Prospective Studies, Incidence, Cholesterol, Smoking, Blood Pressure, World Wide Web.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › informática y ciencias de la información › software
• ciencias naturales › informática y ciencias de la información › base de datos
• ciencias sociales › sociología › gobernanza › gestión de crisis
• ciencias naturales › informática y ciencias de la información › internet › red informática mundial

Programa(s)

• FP4-BIOMED 2 - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of biomedicine and health, 1994-1998

Tema(s)

• 4.3.6 - Identification of risk factors

Convocatoria de propuestas

Datos no disponibles

Régimen de financiación

CON - Coordination of research actions

Coordinador

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 123,Mercer Street Lower 12 ; 2 Dublin ; Irlanda
• Coste total: Sin datos