Trial reportJournal of epidemiology and community health1996
Cost effectiveness of personal health education in primary care for people with angina in the greater Belfast area of Northern Ireland.
Trial report in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Patient education in the management of coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Economic evaluation of cholesterol-related interventions in general practice. An appraisal of the evidence.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1998Pooled it
- Long-term cost effectiveness of cardiac secondary prevention in primary care in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2017Trial
- Cost effectiveness of nurse led secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease in primary care: follow up of a randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005Trial
- Relative cost effectiveness of the SPHERE intervention in selected patient subgroups with existing coronary heart disease.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2012Article
- The nurse as expert practitioner in global cardiovascular risk management.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2003Review
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveTo investigate the cost effectiveness of personal health education for angina patients being treated in general practice.
designA randomised controlled trial in which people were randomised to intervention and control groups. All were assessed at the start and end of the study, with details recorded of disease status, coronary heart disease risk factors, and self assessed quality of life. A note was taken of their current use of drugs and over the course of the study their use of all health services. Those in the intervention group had three visits per year from a health visitor, whose brief was discuss ways of living more easily with their disease and in which risks of further events might be reduced. PATIENTS: Altogether 688 patents in the Greater Belfast area aged less than 75 years and known to have angina for at least six months. MAIN
resultsSignificant improvements in survival and self assessed quality of life were found between the study and control groups. The intervention was associated with a reduction in drug usage and there was no significant difference between the intervention and control groups in terms of their use of other health services.
conclusionGiven the improvement in survival and self assessed quality of life and no significant differences in costs to the health service between the two groups, the intervention was deemed to be cost effective.
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