Published on in Vol 9 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79208, first published .
Evaluating a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer Risk Assessment in Primary Care: Simulation Study of Unintended Weight Loss

Evaluating a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer Risk Assessment in Primary Care: Simulation Study of Unintended Weight Loss

Evaluating a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer Risk Assessment in Primary Care: Simulation Study of Unintended Weight Loss

Javiera Martinez-Gutierrez   1, 2 , MPH, MD ;   Sophie Chima   2, 3 , PhD ;   Lucas De Mendonca   2 , MD ;   Alex Lee   2 , PhD ;   Barbara Hunter   2 , PhD ;   Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis   2, 4 , MBBS, PhD ;   Deborah Daly   2, 5 , BA, BBus, MBA ;   George Fishman   5 , MBA ;   Kit Huckvale   6 , PhD ;   Fong Seng Lim   7 , MD ;   Benny Wang   8 , PhD ;   Craig Nelson   9, 10 , MBBS, PhD ;   Brian Nicholson   11 , BSc, MSc, DPhil ;   Jon Emery   2, 4 , MBBCh, MA, DPhil

1 Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

2 Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

3 Collaborative Centre for Genomic Cancer Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

4 Primary Care and Family Medicine Department, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

5 Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4), Melbourne, Australia

6 The Digital Health Validitron, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

7 National University Polyclinics, Singapore, Singapore

8 Singapore Primary Care Cancer Network (SPriNT), Singapore, Singapore

9 Western Health Chronic Disease Alliance, Western Health Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

10 Department of Medicine, Western Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

11 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Javiera Martinez-Gutierrez, MPH, MD
  • Department of General Practice and Primary Care
  • Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
  • Medical Building, Grattan Street
  • Parkville
  • Australia
  • Phone: 61 390355511
  • Email: javiera.martinez@unimelb.edu.au