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Cardiac rehabilitation availability and delivery in Europe: How does it differ by region and compare with other high-income countries?: Endorsed by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology
  Aims: The aims of this study were to establish cardiac rehabilitation availability and density, as well as the nature of
programmes, and to compare these by European region (geoscheme) and with other high-income countries.
Methods: A survey was administered to cardiac rehabilitation programmes globally. Cardiac associations were engaged
to facilitate programme identification. Density was computed using global burden of disease study ischaemic heart
disease incidence estimates. Four high-income countries were selected for comparison (N¼790 programmes) to
European data, and multilevel analyses were performed.
Results: Cardiac rehabilitation was available in 40/44 (90.9%) European countries. Data were collected in 37 (94.8%
country response rate). A total of 455/1538 (29.6% response rate) programme respondents initiated the survey.
Programme volumes (median 300) were greatest in western European countries, but overall were higher than in
other high-income countries (P

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    20 February 2019

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    SAGE Publications

  • DOI:

    10.1177/2047487319827453

  • Cross Ref:

    10.1177/2047487319827453

  • ISSN:

    2047-4873

  • Library of Congress:

    WG 18.2 Cardiology

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    616 Diseases

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded

Citation

Abreu, A., Pesah, E., Supervia, M., Turk-Adawi, K., Bjarnason-Wehrens, B., Lopez-Jimenez, F., …Grace, S. L. (2019). Cardiac rehabilitation availability and delivery in Europe: How does it differ by region and compare with other high-income countries?: Endorsed by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 26(11), 1128-1130. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319827453

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Keywords

Cardiac rehabilitation, Europe, survey

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