QResearch has published its latest paper which describes the new QKidney risk prediction tool. This has been designed to support the NHS Health Check programme and completes the triad for the ‘Vascular Risk Engine’ alongside QRISK (Cardiovascular Disease) and QDScore (Diabetes).

QResearch recently also published its work on the risks and benefits of statins in the BMJ and Heart and the implementation can be found at www.qintervention.org

Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox, Director of QResearch would like to thank EMIS practices and the NUG for their crucial work in supporting QResearch and for the requests and feedback which help inform its efforts. The first and only presentation of this work was at the EMIS NUG conference 2009 – so `you heard it first at the NUG’.

Call for new QResearch participants

Practices who would like to contribute to QResearch should email Professor Hippisley-Cox with your EMIS CDB number.

Information on QResearch for practices can be found here .