There was evidence to suggest that education can improve HRQoL and decrease healthcare costs by reductions in downstream healthcare utilization .
Conclusions : Our review had insufficient power to exclude clinical ly important effects of education on mortality and morbidity .
Background : To assess the effects of patient education on mortality , morbidity , health-related quality of life ( HRQoL ) , and healthcare costs in people with coronary heart disease ( CHD ) .
Cost effectiveness of personal health education in primary care for people with angina in the greater Belfast area of Northern Ireland.
STUDY OBJECTIVE : To investigate the cost effectiveness of personal health education for angina patients being treated in general practice . DESIGN : A r and omised controlled trial in which people were r and omised 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 RESULTS : Significant 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 . CONCLUSION : Given 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
There was evidence to suggest that education can improve HRQoL and decrease healthcare costs by reductions in downstream healthcare utilization .
Conclusions : Our review had insufficient power to exclude clinical ly important effects of education on mortality and morbidity .
Background : To assess the effects of patient education on mortality , morbidity , health-related quality of life ( HRQoL ) , and healthcare costs in people with coronary heart disease ( CHD ) .