Assessing the quality of cardiac rehabilitation programs by measuring adherence to the Australian quality indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Every year, over 65,000 Australians experience an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and around one-third occur in people with prior coronary heart disease. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) aims to prevent a repeat ACS by supporting patients' return to an active and fulfilling lifestyle. CR programs are efficacious, but audits of clinical practice show variability of program delivery, which may compromise patient outcomes. Core components, quality indicators and accreditation of programs have been introduced internationally to increase program standardisation. With Australian quality indicators (QIs) for cardiac rehabilitation recently introduced, we aimed to conduct a survey in one state of Australia to assess the extent to which programs adhere to the measurement of QIs comparin

SUBMITTER: Astley CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8883249 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature