Nurse involment in primary care: it is the key to improve the outcomes in primary and secondary prevention?

• Main Authors: Sabino Scardi, Pierpaolo Gori, Paolo Umari
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PAGEPress Publications 2015-12-01
• Series: Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
• Subjects: primary and secondary prevention; rehabilitation; ischemic heart disease; nurse clinics
• Online Access: https://www.monaldi-archives.org/index.php/macd/article/view/272

Difficulties in management of risk factors, lifestyle and medications adherence to achieve secondary prevention of ischemic heart disease were described. Many studies indicate that the benefit of cardiac rehabilitaton therapy after acute coronary events is only partially maintained during the following year. Thereafter, new strategies of medical care are needed to improve the long-term outcomes in coronary patients. Nurse co-ordinated, multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitative programme could help patients to improve their lifestyle, to control their risk factors and to achieve their therapeutic goals for secondary prevention of ischemic heart disease.