Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation Program in a Low-Resource Setting: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While effective, cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) as traditionally delivered is not well implemented in lower-resource settings.

Objective

To test the noninferiority of hybrid CR compared with traditional CR in terms of cardiovascular events.

Design, setting, and participants

This pragmatic, multicenter, parallel arm, open-label randomized clinical trial (the Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation Trial [HYCARET]) with blinded outcome assessment was conducted at 6 referral centers in Chile. Adults aged 18 years or older who had a cardiovascular event or procedure, no contraindications to exercise, and access to a mobile telephone were eligible and recruited between April 1, 2019, and March 15, 2020, with follow-up until July 29, 2021.

Interventions

Particip

SUBMITTER: Seron P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10777264 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature