Clinical Validity, Understandability, and Actionability of Online Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculators: Systematic Review.
Carissa BonnerMichael Anthony FajardoSamuel HuiRenee StubbsEmerita Lyndal TrevenaPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2018)
There is a plethora of online CVD risk calculators available, but they are not readily understandable and their actionability is poor. Entering the same clinical information produces widely varying results with little explanation. Developers need to address actionability as well as clinical validity and understandability to improve usefulness to consumers with low health literacy.