Cardiac rehabilitation in the United Kingdom

H. Bethell; R. Lewin; H. Dalal

doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.134338

Cardiac rehabilitation in the United Kingdom

H. Bethell, R. Lewin, H. Dalal

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Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a cost-effective, life-enhancing and life-saving treatment for patients recovering from cardiac illness-from myocardial infarction, revascularisation, angina, heart failure, etc. Its main aims are to help the patient to recover as quickly and completely as possible and then to reduce to a minimum the chance of recurrence of the cardiac illness-it should be an integral step in the management of the patient's condition. Despite the inclusion of CR in the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease only a minority of cardiac patients join CR programmes. Suggestions are made for increasing the uptake.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-275
Number of pages	5
Journal	Heart
Volume	95
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2007.134338
Publication status	Published - Feb 2009

Keywords

CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE
MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
SECONDARY PREVENTION
ARTERY-DISEASE
UPTAKE MAXIMIZATION
RANDOMIZED-TRIAL
EXERCISE
METAANALYSIS
PROGRAMS
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