The recently published guidelines 'Prevention of cardiometabolic diseases' [ 3] urge general practitioners (GPs) to play a proactive role in secondary prevention of their patients at risk, and to manage subsequent intervention [ 3, 4].
Since some smokers may seek treatment from non-VA providers due to the proactive strategies tested, the secondary outcomes are primarily assessed using self-report from the 12-month follow-up survey.
Attention has increasingly focused on early detection, efficient treatment, and secondary prevention through proactive follow-up strategies for patients with chronic diseases [ 1- 6].
That said, it'll be interesting to see how the many developers already on AWS react (and if Amazon will be proactive about hunting down newly created secondary accounts).
This percentage compares very well with those (5.9 6.0% per year) of the cohorts of diabetic patients in secondary prevention analyzed in the PROactive (4) study and the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) (7).
However, this study highlights the importance of communication between primary and secondary care, and demonstrates that knowing proactive support was available from their GP team made a real difference to women.
The primary objective is to assess the discriminating power of a set of indicators that indicates the start of proactive palliative care for patients with COPD. 2. The secondary objective is to examine to what extend individual indicators (or clusters) indicative are for the need of proactive palliative care.
Troy School District Board of Education officials say the policy wasn't prompted by a specific incident, but rather "was just a matter of being proactive," according to Rich Machesky, the district's assistant superintendent for secondary instruction.
Second, we performed a secondary analysis from another systematic review of the PROactive consortium [unpublished observation] that identified existing PRO instruments for measuring physical activity.
Although MMR may be considered secondary or tertiary prevention, it was perceived as proactive clinical work in contrast to the usual 'reactive' work.
