About the SHN's Member Program
The Stanford Heart Network (SHN) is a service and research project conducted by faculty and staff of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University School of Medicine. Its major objective is to work with physicians, nurses and other health professionals in implementing more effective cardiovascular risk reduction programs for individuals at increased risk of heart attacks or stroke. These medical groups join as Network Members in order to enhance the services and materials they provide in their programs. Also, some Members elect to provide selected data from their program via the internet to a clinical database that allows for more effective evaluation of program implementation.
SHN was established to assist in the development of more effective approaches to the prevention of clinical cardiovascular events, especially heart attacks and strokes and to reduce the need for high-cost hospital-based treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The SHN focuses on multi-factor risk reduction in people with increased risk of heart attack and stroke due to elevated risk factor status and those participants with established CVD.
The primary activities of SHN include CVD risk reduction protocol design and development, support of the operation of risk reduction programs conducted by SHN members, training of health professionals in the implementation of multifactor risk reduction programs, support of SHN members through the availability of professional and participant education material and internet based evaluation tools and tracking using data collected via the internet.
Services and materials available to SHN members:
- National Guideline for CVD prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation
- Protocols used for multifactor risk reduction based on the Stanford Coronary Risk Intervention model and the Health Education and Risk Reduction Training Program.
- Posting of up-to-date scientific articles and resources.
- Health tip of the day by email (optional).
- Participant and health professional educational materials.
- Health Trackers – track day-to-day changes in risk factors and exchange information between participant and health professional.
- Opportunity to pool or compare data with Stanford University or other members around the world using the Internet.
Check out these documents for more information about the HEAR2T Model and the SCRIP Study:
If you are a health professional involved in CVD prevention, treatment or rehabilitation and are interested in obtaining information about becoming a SHN member please send us an e-mail at info@stanfordheart.net. Please include a brief description of your program.
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