Step 5 of 10 · Decision support
Clinical pathway
What this step shows
The patient is assigned to a clinical pathway from the history entered. The pathway decides which risk assessment is used next.
Clinical pathway
Secondary Prevention
Patient has established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This automatically places them on the secondary-prevention pathway — no risk score is needed to classify risk.
How this was decided
- ✓ Established cardiovascular disease on file? (secondary prevention) Documented prior CVD event → automatically routed to the Secondary Prevention pathway.