Virtual healthcare solutions for cardiac rehabilitation: a literature review.

ABSTRACT: Graphical AbstractAdherence to cardiac rehabilitation following a primary event has been demonstrated to improve quality of life, increase functional capacity, and decrease hospitalizations and mortality. Mobile technologies offer an opportunity to improve both the quality and utilization of cardiac rehabilitation, and recent clinical studies investigated this technology. This literature review summarizes the current use of mobile health, wearable activity monitors (WAMs), and other multi-component technologies deployed to support home-based virtual cardiac rehabilitation. The methodology was adapted from the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. We identified 2094 records, of which 113 were eligible for qualitative analysis. Different virtual cardiac rehabilita

SUBMITTER: Lee KCS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10039430 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature