What would you like to ask the BMJ Cardiovascular Team of the Year?

For the new doc2doc BMJ Guide to Cardiology, we are interviewing the BMJ Cardiovascular Team of The Year. What questions would you like me to ask them? Please submit your questions below...    Cardiovascular Team of the Year  The Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation Team University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences and Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, West Midlands The team developed a new bleeding risk score specifically for use in Atrial Fibrillation.  HAS-BLED provides clinicians with a validated tool to assess bleeding risk, allowing them to identify modifiable bleeding risk factors, such as adequately controlling blood pressure, removing unnecessary concomitant anti-platelet/NSAIDs, counselling patients' regarding alcohol intake, improving INR control (for patients receiving warfarin), thereby improving clinical practice and patient safety. Published surveys have shown how this clinical practice change would impact in reducing strokes and overall mortality on a national and European level.The team have also published analyses that show the major impact of AF-related stroke, and how this would be improved by the clinical practice change advocated by the introduction of the HAS-BLED Overall, this innovative assessment tool offers the best prediction of bleeding in comparison to other bleeding risk scores.
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