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A comparison study of the utilization of National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines by cardiology and internal
Lopa Patel1, Katherine Abriam-Yago, Elizabeth Ann Harkins
1San Jose State University, California, USA. Lnurse77@hotmail.com
Purpose:
To determine whether patients with hypercholesterolemia were being treated according to the updated 2001 National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) clinical guidelines and whether a difference existed between internists and cardiologists in the implementation of these guidelines.
Data Sources:
This retrospective study used data obtained from a review of 200 patient charts that were compared with the NCEP guidelines.
Conclusions:
Results indicated that 67% of internal medicine patients and 71% of cardiology patients who qualified for pharmaceutical treatment received prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medications. The difference between internal medicine and cardiology physicians was not statistically significant.
Implications For Practice:
Like physicians, nurse practitioners should become familiar with and utilize the updated guidelines as standards of practice to promote and improve patient outcomes over the life span.
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