title: Creating an education model for cardiac patients.
abstract: Patient education is important in reducing the risk of recurrence of myocardial infarction. Education should be specific to patients' individual needs. Patients need motivating to achieve the required behaviour changes. A multidisciplinary, multifactorial approach to education is most effective.
authors.affiliation: Coronary Care Unit, Waterford Regional Hospital, Ireland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lane
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000451:nursing*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*