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 ) .
Long-term effects of lifestyle behavior change in coronary artery disease: effects on recurrent coronary events after percutaneous coronary intervention.
This study evaluated the effects of a behaviorally oriented cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention program on lifestyle changes and on coronary recurrence rates .  Patients recently treated with percutaneous coronary intervention ( PCI ) were r and omized to an intervention with an aggressive focus on lifestyle changes ( smoking , diet , exercise , and stress ; n=46 ) or to a st and ard-care control group ( n=42 ) . Results showed that the intervention group had significantly larger overall lifestyle changes than the control group after 12 , 24 , 36 , and 60 months . The intervention group had significantly lower rates of all coronary events ( acute myocardial infa rct ion , coronary artery bypass graft , PCI , cardiac death ; 30.4 % vs. 53.7 % ) , and of cardiovascular mortality ( 2.2 % vs. 14.6 % ) . The need for future large-scale and long-term evaluations of lifestyle-oriented secondary prevention interventions of this kind is emphasized
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 ) .