Israel's first national remote cardiac rehabilitation program: A retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Cardiac rehabilitation is an essential component of secondary prevention consistently unexploited by most eligible patients. Accordingly, the remote cardiac rehabilitation program (RCRP) was developed to create optimal conditions for remote instruction and supervision for patients to enable successful completion of the program.

Methods

This study comprised 306 patients with established coronary heart disease who underwent a 6-month RCRP. RCRP involves regular exercise, monitored by a smartwatch that relays data to the operations center and a mobile application on the patient's smartphone. A stress test was performed immediately before the RCRP and repeated after 3 months. The aims were to determine the effectiveness of the RCRP in improving aerobic capacity, and correla

SUBMITTER: Nabutovsky I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10331099 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature