Evaluating a clinical tool (FAMCAT) for identifying familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: a retrospective cohort study.

Ralph Kwame AkyeaNadeem QureshiJoe KaiSimon de LusignanJulian SherlockChristopher McGeeStephen Weng

Published in: BJGP open (2020)

Better performance of the FAMCAT algorithm, compared with other approaches for case finding of FH in primary care, such as Simon Broome criteria, DLCN criteria or very high cholesterol levels, has been confirmed in a large population cohort.

Keyphrases

primary care
machine learning
general practice
deep learning
early onset
neural network