Australian general practitioners initiate statin therapy primarily on the basis of lipid levels; New Zealand general practitioners use absolute risk

Chris Schilling; Josh Knight; Duncan Mortimer; Dennis Petrie; Philip Clarke; John Chalmers; Andrew Kerr; Rod Jackson

Journal article

Australian general practitioners initiate statin therapy primarily on the basis of lipid levels; New Zealand general practitioners use absolute risk

Chris Schilling, Josh Knight, Duncan Mortimer, Dennis Petrie, Philip Clarke, John Chalmers, Andrew Kerr, Rod Jackson

HEALTH POLICY | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.09.022

University of Melbourne Researchers

Dennis Petrie Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Josh Knight Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Philip Clarke Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Christopher Schilling Author Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital

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ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF POLICIES TO MANAGE AND PREVENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE &AMP; DIABETES IN AUSTRALIA

This Research Fellowship will use health economics to deliver health system impact. It will focus on: (i) mechanisms for setting prices for ..

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A HEALTH POLICY SIMULATION MODEL FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

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Grants

Awarded by NHMRC

Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Monash University, the University of Auckland, the University of Melbourne, and the NHMRC research grant "Development and validation of a health policy simulation model for cardiovascular disease; GNT1084347". Philip Clarke was supported by NHMRC Fellowship GNT1079621. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.