Why the study?
Quality of care varies widely across cardiovascular risk prevention centres in Europe, and accreditation systems assessing the quality of care of these centres did not exist.
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Population
Centres, departments, or outpatient clinics providing cardiovascular risk prevention in an ESC member or ESC Affiliate country
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Should not yet change referral or centre selection; leaves open whether accreditation improves prevention quality or outcomes.
Janssen et al. (2019) studied this question.
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