Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2008
Does outpatient telephone coaching add to hospital quality improvement following hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome?
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of person- and family-centred care transition interventions on patient- oriented outcomes: A systematic review.Nursing open · 2021Pooled it
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
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- Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Effects of telephone-based health coaching on patient-reported outcomes and health behavior change: A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Health coaching by medical assistants to improve control of diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia in low-income patients: a randomized controlled trial.Annals of family medicine · 2015Trial
- Implementation and success of nurse telephone counseling in linguistically isolated Korean American patients with high blood pressure.Patient education and counseling · 2010Trial
- A protocol for a cluster randomized trial comparing strategies for translating self-management support into primary care practices.BMC family practice · 2018Article
- Health changing conversations: clinicians' experience of health coaching in the East of England.Future hospital journal · 2016Article
- Cardiovascular disease self-care interventions.Nursing research and practice · 2013Review
- Do self-report and medical record comorbidity data predict longitudinal functional capacity and quality of life health outcomes similarly?BMC health services research · 2012Article
- "Concordance between comorbidity data from patient self-report interviews and medical record documentation".BMC health services research · 2008Article
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Abstract
backgroundTelephone counseling in chronic disease self-management is increasing, but has not been tested in studies that control for quality of medical care.
objectiveTo test the effectiveness of a six-session outpatient telephone-based counseling intervention to improve secondary prevention (behaviors, medication) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) following discharge from hospital, and impact on physical functioning and quality of life at 8 months post-discharge.
designPatient-level randomized trial of hospital quality improvement (QI-only) versus quality improvement plus brief telephone coaching in three months post-hospitalization (QI-plus). DATA: medical record, state vital records, patient surveys (baseline, three and eight months post-hospitalization). ANALYSIS: pooled-time series generalized estimating equations to analyze repeated measures; intention-to-treat analysis.
participantsSeven hundred and nineteen patients admitted to one of five hospitals in two contiguous mid-Michigan communities enrolled; 525 completed baseline surveys. MEASUREMENTS: We measured secondary prevention behaviors, physical functioning, and quality of life.
resultsQI-plus patients showed higher self-reported physical activity (OR = 1.53; p = .01) during the first three months, with decline after active intervention was withdrawn. Smoking cessation and medication use were not different at 3 or 8 months; functional status and quality of life were not different at 8 months.
conclusionsTelephone coaching post-hospitalization for ACS was modestly effective in accomplishing short-term, but not long-term life-style behavior change. Previous positive results shown in primary care did not transfer to free-standing telephone counseling as an adjunct to care following hospitalization.
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