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The Tool That Makes You Better Without It
Clinical decision support should build expertise, not replace it. There's a difference The Future of Clinical Decision Support is a new series from MDCalc exploring how AI, evidence, and physician judgment are reshaping medicine. These essays are intended to spark discussion about where technology is taking clinical decision support – and where physicians feel it should go. There's a metric no clinical AI vendor publishes on their website: How good are the clinicians who used
Shazia Siddique, MD MSHP
3 min read
From ASCVD Pooled Cohort Equations to PREVENT: Rethinking Cardiovascular Risk
For more than a decade, the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) pooled cohort equations (PCEs) have been the default for estimating a patient's cardiovascular risk. Now a new model is replacing them, and it doesn't just update the math. It changes predictive outcomes and implications for millions of patients. That shift is the subject of the latest episode of MDAware: Upgrading Clinical Judgment. Host Dr. Shazia Siddique sits down with Dr. Sadiya Khan and Dr. Donal
MDCalc Team
2 days ago3 min read
Not All PEs Are Created Equal: What to Do After Diagnosis
The CT scan comes back positive. The patient has a PE. And then, as Dr. Eric Steinberg puts it, "well, what do we do now?" That question is the subject of Part 2 of a two-part conversation on MD Aware: Upgrading Clinical Judgment. Host Dr. Joe Habboushe, co-founder and CEO of MDCalc, returns with Dr. Steinberg to cover the side of PE care that gets far less attention than diagnosis: figuring out how sick a patient actually is, and what that means for patient triage. Meet the
MDCalc Team
Aug 182 min read
Cutting Through 36 Calculators: How to Actually Diagnose a PE
Type "pulmonary embolism" into MDCalc's search bar and you get 36 results. Most clinicians don't have time to sort through all of them when a patient is sitting in front of them, and most don't need to. MDCalc’s new feature, Collections, now helps clinicians navigate these scores more effectively. Host Dr. Joe Habboushe, co-founder and CEO of MDCalc, sits down with Dr. Eric Steinberg to walk through the diagnostic side of pulmonary embolism, the tools featured in the new mul
MDCalc Team
Aug 133 min read
Who's Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong?
Most conversations about AI in healthcare focus on what the technology can do. This one is about what it should do, and who gets to decide. In the latest episode of MDAware: Upgrading Clinical Judgment, host Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Sarah Gebauer, a physician and healthcare AI governance expert whose career has spanned anesthesiology, hospice and palliative care, consulting, and national security AI evaluation for RAND. The two have known each other since medical
MDCalc Team
Jul 13 min read
New on MDCalc: The VOCAL-Penn Score for Cirrhosis Surgical Risk
Dr. Nadiem Mahmud joins host Dr. Shazia Siddique to introduce the VOCAL-Penn Score, a new MDCalc tool that gives clinicians four evidence-based risk predictions to guide surgical decision-making in patients with cirrhosis.
MDCalc Team
May 182 min read
Grading the Calculators: Inside MDCalc's Quality Rating System
Discover how MDCalc is raising the bar for clinical decision support tools with the launch of its new Quality Rating System, designed to help clinicians quickly identify the most evidence-based, equitable, and trustworthy calculators at the point of care.
MDCalc Team
May 182 min read
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