A Multidisciplinary Model for Aggressive Risk Factor Control in Cardiovascular Disease

摘要: Critical recent insights into the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have served to underscore value primary secondary prevention efforts. At same time, there is growing awareness that a troubling gap exists between accepted standards for risk factor assessment control actual clinical practice. This particularly so traditional care settings in which physician source preventive services. The resulting context creates an opportunity develop innovative effective models detection modification CVD factors. chapter reviews background rationale creation Preventive Cardiology Program, summarizes design program developed at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, describes representative outcomes from our initial cohort.