Do nurse-led secondary prevention clinics improve health status in patients with coronary heart disease?
While nurse-led secondary prevention clinics improve survival, initial gains in health status are not maintained at 4 years.
We have demonstrated previously a significantly greater survival in attendees at nurse-led secondary prevention clinics. Despite this, improvements in health status achieved in the first year of the study were reduced at 4 years. The case for nurse-led clinics remains strong, but further research is required on ways to optimize current health status.
Peter Murchie (Tue,) studied this question.
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