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QUESTION: Does an early, audiotaped recovery information intervention after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery reduce psychological distress and adverse symptoms and improve physical functioning when compared with usual discharge care?
Design
Randomised {allocation concealed}*, unblinded, controlled trial with follow up after 1 month.
Setting
Cardiac step down unit in an acute care urban teaching hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Patients
193 patients who had their first CABG surgery in the previous 4–5 days; could speak, read, and write English; resided within 90 miles of Cleveland; were cognitively intact; were being discharged home; and had no major complications such as myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolus, haemorrhage, or cerebral vascular accident. 93% of patients (mean age 63 y, 53% men) were included in the analysis.
Intervention
98 patients were allocated to the Cardiac Home Information …
Footnotes
Source of funding: American Heart Association. For correspondence: Ms S M Moore, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4904, USA. Fax +1 216 368 5303.