Limited Efficacy of a Long-term Secondary Prevention Program in Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack Patients

Despite our systematic approach to care for patients after ischemic stroke or TIA, we observed that 31% of our patients did not visit our outpatient clinic for the long-term secondary prevention program at all. In addition, the long-term secondary prevention program alone, consisting of regular follow-up visits and a medication treatment algorithm, was not sufficient to reach guideline-recommended treatment targets in most of our ischemic stroke and TIA patients.