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Translation of evidence-based guidelines in preventive cardiology: the EUROACTION program

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The report from the EUROACTION Study Group demonstrates that a nurse-coordinated, multidisciplinary, family-based program results in improvements in patients' lifestyle, control of blood pressure, and use of cardioprotective drugs, when compared with standard care. The results of the study support the need for organized and systematic approaches to individualized cardiovascular risk reduction in patients with, or at high risk for, coronary heart disease. The EUROACTION program is an example of effectiveness research, which aims to develop and validate strategies to implement interventions previously shown to be efficacious.

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  1. Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642, USA thomas_pearson@urmc.rochester.edu

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  1. TA Pearson is Albert D Kaiser Professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA.,

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Pearson, T. Translation of evidence-based guidelines in preventive cardiology: the EUROACTION program. Nat Rev Cardiol 6, 8–9 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1386

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