Does the addition of cardiac telerehabilitation to conventional centre-based cardiac rehabilitation improve one-year cardiovascular rehospitalization rates, medical costs, and quality of life?
Adding cardiac telerehabilitation to conventional center-based programs is a cost-effective strategy that improves outcomes compared to center-based rehabilitation alone.
This paper shows the addition of cardiac telerehabilitation to conventional centre-based cardiac rehabilitation to be more effective and efficient than centre-based cardiac rehabilitation alone. These results are useful for policy makers charged with deciding how limited health care resources should best be allocated in the era of exploding need.
Frederix et al. (Wed,) studied this question.