Quantifying the impact of delayed delivery of cardiac rehabilitation on patients' health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite its role as an effective intervention to improve the long-term health of patients with cardiovascular disease and existence of national guidelines on timeliness, many health services still fail to offer cardiac rehabilitation in a timely manner after referral. The impact of this failure on patient health and the additional burden on healthcare providers in an English setting is quantified in this article.

Methods

Two logistic regressions are conducted, using the British Heart Foundation National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation dataset, to estimate the impact of delayed cardiac rehabilitation initiation on the level of uptake and completion. The results of these regressions are applied to a decision model to estimate the long-term implications of these fact

SUBMITTER: Hinde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7564289 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature