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MDCalc Launches Quality-Rating System for Clinical Calculators
MDCalc is introducing ratings for its more than 800 clinical calculators used by doctors for decisions on disease risk and transplant eligibility. The system seeks to highlight validation limits in the tools. Health systems researcher Shazia Siddique joined the company last year and commented on the issue.
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MDCalc is launching a quality-rating system for the more than 800 clinical calculators it hosts, @statnews reported July 17, 2026. The ratings will cover tools that doctors use daily to assess kidney performance, vaginal birth success after C-section, and other patient care factors.
Shazia Siddique, a health systems researcher and gastroenterologist who joined MDCalc last year, said the effort addresses a core problem.
“In clinical practice, a lot of the tools that we use, we genuinely have no idea how limited it is in its validation,” Siddique stated. The company plans to apply the ratings across its platform to increase transparency on how each calculator was developed and tested. MDCalc operates one of the largest collections of such decision-support tools in medicine.
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