More people are surviving acute events, and there have been advances in the prevention and treatment of CVD, however, CVD is still responsible for 40 percent of deaths (often premature and preventable) in New Zealand.
Pinnacle has developed PowerBI clinical dashboards which practices can use to identify patients overdue for assessments. For assistance with using these dashboards please contact Michelle Bayley, clinical governance manager.
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Pinnacle has developed a rural chest pain assessment method that allows low-risk patients in rural communities to be safely assessed and managed by their general practice, rather than travelling significant distances to hospital - often needlessly.
Read morePathlab has reported BNP levels using the Triage Method and using EDTA plasma as the preferred sample type. The current reference interval is 0-100 ng/L. From 23 December 2024, the current BNP method will be replaced by NT-proBNP. This method is more specific than BNP, as NT-proBNP has a longer half-life and is less influenced by factors like obesity or kidney function.
Read moreTreatment of patients with suspected ACC related DVT with a Wells Score of >= 2 or a positive D-dimer.
View detailsA range of guides to assist when using the iron infusion programme.