Impact   of an integral assistance model between primary care and cardiology on the management of patients with ischemic heart disease or atrial fibrillation.

CONCLUSION: The implementation of the new care model was associated with a significant reduction of 31.2% in requests of first visits. In addition, the delay to the cardiologist consultation significantly decreased by 54.5% for the first visits, and by 57.1% for the follow-up visits. The proportion of patients that achieved recommended low density lipoprotein-cholesterol goals significantly increased from 20.8 to 29.6%. The proportion of patients submitted to anticoagulant therapy significantly increased from 69.3 to 74.2%, as well as the proportion of patients taking direct oral anticoagulants (from 7.9 to 28.4%). PMID: 30547674 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research - Category: General Medicine Tags: J Comp Eff Res Source Type: research