An independent and external validation of QRISK2 cardiovascular disease risk score: a prospective open cohort study.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the QRISK2 score for predicting 10-year cardiovascular disease in an independent UK cohort of patients from general practice records and to compare it with the NICE version of the Framingham equation and QRISK1. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study to validate a...