What methods have been employed to improve preventive cardiovascular care in general practice?
A wide variety of methods have been employed to improve preventive cardiovascular care in general practice, including multifaceted support, health information technology interventions, practice organization reform, and pharmacist managed hypertension programs. Examples of these methods include the nationwide, controlled trial in general practice described in Frijling et al. (2003), the meta-analysis of interventions described in Stone et al. (2002), the systematic review of health information technology described in Chaudhry et al. (2006), the study of stroke prevention in general practice described in de Koning et al. (2005), the pharmacist-managed hypertension program evaluation described in Houle et al. (2012), and the cluster-randomized controlled trial of vascular risk factor management described in Harris et al. (2012).