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Individualized risk communication and outreach for primary cardiovascular disease prevention in community health centers: randomized trial.
The researchers conducted a randomized trial to determine if mailed outreach containing patients’ individualized CVD risk and uncontrolled risk factors followed by telephone discussion with trained lay health workers would improve statin use for primary prevention among community health center patients with moderately high cardiovascular risk. They found that the intervention, led to more cholesterol treatment discussions with primary care clinicians but had little impact on statin prescribing.
AHRQ-funded; HS021141.
Citation: Persell SD, Brown T, Lee JY .
Individualized risk communication and outreach for primary cardiovascular disease prevention in community health centers: randomized trial.
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2015 Nov;8(6):560-6. doi: 10.1161/circoutcomes.115.001723..
Keywords: Cardiovascular Conditions, Prevention, Community-Based Practice, Clinician-Patient Communication, Risk