Nurse-led telephone interventions for people with cardiac disease: The importance of the multi-disciplinary approach

To the Editor:

As Stolic et al. suggest, we agree there is increasing evidence that non-acute management of coronary heart disease by telephone in addition to standard medical care is a viable supplement or alternative to facility-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with disease. Further, the relatively low cost of telephone-based interventions make them an attractive option to support patients and to deliver education in the early post-discharge period. Therefore, it is timely to consider the evidence supporting the use of telephone-based interventions by synthesising the current data.