Why the study?
Cardiovascular rehabilitation referral, uptake, and adherence remain inadequate, and significant heterogeneity persists among European cardiovascular rehabilitation centres despite existing evidence-based guidance.
This EAPC position statement provides minimal and optimal standards and quality indicators to standardize and improve cardiovascular rehabilitation programmes across Europe.
Apply these CR standards now to cut heterogeneity and raise programme quality; extends prior evidence into formal EAPC accreditation metrics.
Despite the proven efficacy and cost-effectiveness of contemporary cardiovascular rehabilitation programmes, the referral to/uptake of and adherence to cardiovascular rehabilitation remains inadequate. In addition, heterogeneity persists amongst different cardiovascular rehabilitation centres in Europe, despite the available scientific documents describing the evidence-based rehabilitation format/content. This position statement was elaborated by the Secondary Prevention and Rehabilitation (SP/CR) section of EAPC. It defines the minimal and optimal cardiovascular rehabilitation standards. In addition, it describes the relevant quality indicators of cardiovascular rehabilitation programmes to date. Compliance of European cardiovascular rehabilitation centres with these standards will improve cardiovascular rehabilitation process standardization in Europe and hence increase the quality of cadiovascular rehabilitation programmes.
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