A Clinical Audit to Record and Monitor Cardiovascular Diseases

SURF is an international clinical audit that aims to simplify the recording and management of cardiovascular risk factors in routine cardiology clinics for patients with established coronary heart disease. A welcome initiative by University Medical Centre Utrecht and Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the European Society of Cardiology.

List of publications

List of publications

1. Cooney MT, Reiner Z, Sheu W, et al. SURF– SUrvey of Risk Factor management: First report of an international audit. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2012;21: 813–822.

2. Zhao M, Cooney MT, Klipstein-Grobusch K, et al. Simplifyingthe audit of risk factor recording and control: A report from an internationalstudy in 11 countries. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2016; 23: 1202-10.

3. Zhao M, Vaartjes I, Graham I, et al. Sex differences in risk factor management of coronary heart disease across three regions. Heart. 2017; 103: 1587-94.

4. Zhao M, Graham I, Cooney MT, Grobbee DE, Vaartjes I, Klipstein-Grobusch K. Determinants in risk factor management of coronary heart disease across three regions. In press