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Q In patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), does a 6 month programme of coaching by non-drug prescribing nurses and dietitians reduce total cholesterol (TC) concentrations?
Clinical impact ratings GP/FP/Primary care ★★★★★★☆ IM/Ambulatory care ★★★★★☆☆ Cardiology ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial (Coaching patients On Achieving Cardiovascular Health [COACH]).
Allocation:
concealed.*
Blinding:
blinded (outcome assessors).*
Follow up period:
6 months.
Setting:
cardiology departments of 6 university teaching hospitals in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Patients:
792 patients (mean age 59 y, 77% men) who were admitted to hospital for coronary artery bypass graft surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention, acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina and discharged on medical therapy, or coronary angiography with planned elective revascularisation. Exclusion criteria: no telephone access, inability to speak or read English or travel to hospital for follow up visits, no …
Footnotes
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↵* See glossary.
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For correspondence: Dr M J Vale, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. margarite.valesvhm.org.au
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Sources of funding: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and Merck Sharp and Dohme.
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A modified version of this abstract appears in Evidence-Based Nursing.