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Does a nurse-led programme of support and lifestyle management reduce risk factors and healthcare utilization in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass surgery?
Does a nurse-led programme of support and lifestyle management reduce risk factors and healthcare utilization in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass surgery?
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A preoperative nurse-led lifestyle management program for patients awaiting CABG may not reduce clinical risk factors but could decrease overall healthcare utilization.
The nurse-led programme did not appear to reduce risk factors prior to coronary artery bypass surgery. However, the intervention appears to reduce overall healthcare utilization.
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Goodman et al. (2007) studied this question.
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