Cost analysis and comparison of two global cardiovascular risk scores in hypertensive patients at Mafikeng provincial hospital: a preliminary exploratory study
A research report submitted to seek ethical clearance from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Family Medicine Johannesburg 2016. === A preliminary study was do...
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25412 |
| Summary: | A research report submitted to seek ethical clearance from the Human Research Ethics
Committee of the Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the degree of Master of Family Medicine
Johannesburg 2016. === A preliminary study was done where South African Hypertension guideline risk score was
compare with the WHO Cardiovascular risk score (for Southern Africa). At Mafikeng
Provincial hospital 130 hypertensive patients were assessed using both scoring
algorithms. Ninety (69%) of the 130 patients were high risk. The WHO risk score was able
to classify 84 (93%) of the high risk patients by SA risk calculator also as high risk and 36
(90%) of the 40 low risk patients also as low risk. The WHO risk calculator has a sensitivity
of 93% and a specificity of 90% with 89% accuracy. === LG2018 |
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