Cochrane · systematic review · CD008895
Patient education in the management of coronary heart disease
Anderson, L, Brown, JPR, Clark, AM, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2017 · Cochrane Library
HeartAMSTAR 2: not assessed
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Questions
7
current version
GRADE rated
7
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 3 · 42.9%Low 2 · 28.6%Moderate 2 · 28.6%High 0 · 0%
Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.
Questions and results
Patient education for the management of coronary heart disease
Population: patients with coronary heart disease
| Outcome | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Total mortality at the end of the | RR 0.8 [0.6, 1.05] | 13 studies · 10075 participants | Moderate Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |
Fatal and/or non‐fatal MI at the end of the | RR 0.63 [0.26, 1.48] | 2 studies · 209 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |
Other fatal and/or non‐fatal cardiovascular events | RR 0.36 [0.23, 0.56] | 2 studies · 310 participants | Low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |
Total revascularisations (including CABG and PCI) | RR 0.58 [0.19, 1.71] | 3 studies · 456 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |
Hospitalisations (cardiac‐related)at end of | RR 0.93 [0.71, 1.21] | 5 studies · 14849 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |
All cause withdrawal at | RR 1.04 [0.88, 1.22] | 17 studies · 10972 participants | Low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |
HRQoLVarious HRQoL measures | no estimate extracted | 13 studies · 4393 participants | Moderate Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, publication bias |