Cardiovascular

These helpful tools can be used to improve the quality of care and provide education for your patients.

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CARDIOVASCULAR RESOURCES
Clinical practice guidelines
	Management of adults with symptomatic heart failure (99KB PDF) Guidelines for diagnostic evaluation, treatment and education. Updated 04/2009
	Management of hypercholesterolemia (689KB PDF) Guidelines and recommendations for management of LDL cholesterol. Updated 12/2009
	Management of adults with hypertension (87KB PDF) Guidelines for diagnostic evaluation, education and treatment. Updated 12/2009
Practice management
Web Page	Cardiovascular disease prevention (links to the American Heart Assn. website, opens in a new browser window) A summary of the American Heart Association's Guidelines for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke: 2002 Update. It also includes a coronary heart disease risk prediction score sheet that you may use for your patients.
	ATP III guidelines at-a-glance quick desk reference (83KB PDF) This is a summary of the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines, May 2001, from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Updated 05/2001
Web page	10-year heart attack risk calculator This risk assessment online tool uses information from the Framingham Heart Study to predict a person's chance of having a heart attack in the next 10 years.
	Patient profile: ACEI/ARB data (396KB PDF) A sample showing how to do a health condition search for ACEI/ARB data in the patient profile tool here on priorityhealth.com. Updated 07/2007
Patient education
	Prescription for a healthy heart (197KB PDF) These "prescription pads" can be used to prescribe exercise and nutrition guidelines for your patients to follow. Updated 06/2004
Web page	Aspirin therapy & heart disease information Print this Web page to help your patients understand the value and the risks of aspirin therapy for heart disease. Updated 12/04/2006
Web page	Setting goals for managing your blood pressure Print this Web page to give a tip sheet to your patients who need to set goals for getting more exercise, quitting smoking, and other ways of lowering their hypertension. Updated 03/2006
Web page	Tips on how to avoid salt & use alternative seasonings Print this page to help your hypertensive patients begin cutting down their dependence on table and cooking salt. Updated 02/2007
	CHF symptom management chart (30KB PDF) Use this green/yellow/red symptom-sorting chart to help your CHF patients track and categorize their symptoms and know when to get help. Updated 03/2006
Priority Health programs HealthyEncountersSM - Cardiovascular Refer your patients to case management services: 616 481-9701
Cardiovascular links These organizations may provide helpful resources for prevention, disease management and patient education: American Heart Association National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Adult Treatment Panel III Update to Guidelines

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