Can a heart failure-specific cardiac rehabilitation program decrease hospitalizations and improve outcomes in high-risk patients?

105 high-risk patients with heart failure

Individualized, multidisciplinary 12-week cardiac rehabilitation program, including an individualized exercise component tailored to functional ability and social circumstances, coordinated by a specialist heart failure nurse

Information session provided by the cardiac rehabilitation coordinator followed by standard care from a cardiologist or general practitioner

Hospitalizations, functional capacity, and survival at 12 monthshard clinical