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Does intensive-inpatient cardiac rehabilitation improve completion rates compared to extensive-outpatient programs in elderly patients?
Does intensive-inpatient cardiac rehabilitation improve completion rates compared to extensive-outpatient programs in elderly patients?
Older age and comorbidities reduce referral and uptake of cardiac rehabilitation in the elderly, but intensive-inpatient programs yield higher completion rates than extensive-outpatient ones.
Intensive-inpatient CR was associated with higher completion in elderly patients; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before practice change.
In this European cohort of elderly patients, older age and comorbidity tackled patients' referral and uptake of CR programmes. Intensive-inpatient CR programmes showed higher completion than extensive-outpatient CR programmes, suggesting this formula could suit some elderly patients.
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