Economic Outcomes of Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Patients With Acute Heart Failure in the REHAB-HF Trial: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients (REHAB-HF) trial, a novel 12-week rehabilitation intervention demonstrated significant improvements in validated measures of physical function, quality of life, and depression, but no significant reductions in rehospitalizations or mortality compared with a control condition during the 6-month follow up. The economic implications of these results are important given the increasing pressures for cost containment in health care.

Objective

To report the economic outcomes of the REHAB-HF trial and estimate the potential cost-effectiveness of the intervention.

Design, setting, participants

The multicenter REHAB-HF trial randomized 349 patients 60 years or older who were hospitalized for acute de

SUBMITTER: Chew DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8613698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature