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 ) .
Behavioral effects of a comprehensive, multifactorial program for lifestyle change after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: a prospective, randomized controlled study.
A group of 93 coronary patients recently treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty ( PTCA ) were r and omly assigned to either an intervention or a control group . Subjects in the intervention group participated in a comprehensive behaviorally oriented program aim ed at achieving significant long-term changes in risk factor-related lifestyle behavior . Assessment s of lifestyle behaviors , psychological factors , biological risk factors , and rehabilitation as well as secondary prevention endpoints were carried out , at inclusion and after 12 months . Results showed that the intervention patients , as compared with controls , improved significantly on measures assessing smoking , exercise , and diet habits . These self-rated changes were confirmed by weight reductions and improved exercise capacity , as well as by between-group differences in sub clinical chest pain during an exercise test . However , few effects were found on the different psychological variables , as well as on morbidity or return to work
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 ) .