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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

Adobe PDF File Management of adults with symptomatic heart failure (99KB PDF)
Guidelines for diagnostic evaluation, treatment and education.
Updated 04/2009
Adobe PDF File Management of hypercholesterolemia (689KB PDF)
Guidelines and recommendations for management of LDL cholesterol.
Updated 12/2009
Adobe PDF File 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.
Adobe PDF File 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
Adobe PDF File JNC 7 reference card (258KB PDF)
This is a summary of the Seventh Report of the Joint National committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7).
Updated 05/2003
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.
Adobe PDF File (69KB PDF)
Use this flow sheet to assist in providing optimal care for members with chronic health conditions.
Updated 07/2005
Adobe PDF File Reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (43KB PDF)
This document outlines a strategy for reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality through evidence-based practices.
Updated 06/2007
Adobe PDF File 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
Adobe PDF File Persistence of ACEI/ARB and statin therapy adherence measure (49KB PDF)
Complete measure details.
Updated 06/2009
Adobe PDF File ACEI/ARB key indicator report sample (29KB PDF)
A sample of how persistence of ACEI/ARB therapy will be shown on the key indicator report.
Updated 07/2007

Patient education

Adobe PDF File 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
Adobe PDF File 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


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Cardiovascular links


These organizations may provide helpful resources for prevention, disease management and patient education:


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Last modified 03/05/10