Does a follow up care programme in general practice improve health outcomes in patients with myocardial infarction and angina?
Simply coordinating and supporting existing primary care follow-up for ischemic heart disease is insufficient to improve health outcomes without a systematic approach to secondary prevention.
Although the programme was effective in promoting follow up in general practice, it did not improve health outcome. Simply coordinating and supporting existing NHS care is insufficient. Ischaemic heart disease is a chronic condition which requires the same systematic approach to secondary prevention applied in other chronic conditions such as diabetes mellitus.
Jolly et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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