You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Quality improvement
The benefits of nurse led secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease continued after 4 years

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.6.4.123

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Murchie P, Campbell NC, Ritchie LD, et al.Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: four year follow up of a randomised controlled trial in primary care.BMJ2003;326:84–7OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    QUESTION: In patients with pre-existing coronary heart disease (CHD), do the benefits of nurse led secondary prevention clinics continue beyond 1 year?

    Design

    Randomised {allocation concealed}*, unblinded*, controlled trial with mean follow up of 4.7 years.

    Setting

    19 randomly selected general practices in Scotland, UK.

    Patients

    1343 patients (mean age 66 y, 58% men) who had CHD. Exclusion criteria were terminal illness, dementia, and inability to leave home. 82% of patients were followed up.

    Intervention

    673 patients were allocated to receive invitations to attend secondary prevention clinics at their general practice where nurses reviewed symptoms and treatments, …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • ↵* Campbell NC, Thain J, Deans HG, et al. BMJ 1998; 316:1434–7.OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    • Source of funding: Chief Scientist Office at the Scottish Executive.

    • For correspondence: Mr P Murchie, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. p.murchie{at}abdn.ac.uk

    • A modified version of this abstract appears in Evidence-Based Medicine.