title: [Nurse involvement in primary care: it is the key to improve the outcomes in primary and secondary prevention?].
abstract: 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 rehabilitation 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.
authors.affiliation: Scuola di Specialità in Cardiologia, Università degli Studi di Trieste. sabino.scardi@libero.it
authors.forename: Sabino
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scardi
authors.forename: Pierpaolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gori
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Umari
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D059017:Primary Care Nursing; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000592:standards*; D055502:Secondary Prevention / Q000592:standards*; D016896:Treatment Outcome