Impact of Exercise Programs on Hospital Readmission Following Hospitalization for Heart Failure: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Given persistently high 30-day readmission rates among patients hospitalized for heart failure, there is an ongoing need to identify new interventions to reduce readmissions. Although exercise programs can improve outcomes among ambulatory heart failure patients, it is not clear whether this benefit extends to reducing readmissions following heart failure hospitalization. We therefore conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify randomized controlled trials examining the impact of exercise programs on hospital readmissions among patients recently hospitalized for heart failure. We searched Ovid MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Wiley Cochrane Library for studies that fulfilled pre-defined criteria, including that the exercise program pre-specify activity type and exercise frequency,

SUBMITTER: Goyal P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5507625 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature