Do organisational interventions or patient education improve modifiable risk factor control and prevent recurrent cardiovascular events in patients requiring secondary prevention of stroke?
Organisational interventions may improve blood pressure control in secondary stroke prevention, but do not clearly reduce recurrent cardiovascular events.
We found that organisational interventions may be associated with an improvement in achieving blood pressure target but we did not find any clear evidence that these interventions improve other modifiable risk factors (lipid profile, HbA1c, medication adherence) or reduce the incidence of recurrent cardiovascular events. Interventions, including patient education alone, did not lead to improvements in modifiable risk factor control or the prevention of recurrent cardiovascular events.
Bridgwood et al. (Mon,) studied this question.