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- Title
Results and cost of meeting the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease requirement for 12 month follow‐up after acute coronary events.
- Authors
Evans, Julie; Turner, Sally; Bethell, Hugh
- Abstract
Background The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) set standards, targets and milestones. In the case of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or coronary revascularization, Milestone 3 of Standard 12 requires a 12 month audit of exercise and smoking habit and of body mass index (BMI) for patients who have attended cardiac rehabilitation (CR). The targets are that 50 per cent of patients should be exercising regularly, not smoking and have a BMI of <30 kg/m². The purpose of this study was to find out whether the targets are realistic and to measure the cost of retrieving the data.
- Subjects
CORONARY disease; HEALTH; SMOKING; CARDIAC rehabilitation; PREVENTIVE medicine; MYOCARDIAL infarction; BODY mass index
- Publication
Journal of Public Health, 2004, Vol 26, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
1741-3842
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pubmed/fdh130