What is the clinical evidence from this study?

Study design: Editorial. Population: Cardiovascular disease. Intervention: Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To critically evaluate existing terminology, goals, delivery models, and outcome measures in cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention.

February 27, 2019European Journal of Preventive CardiologyOpen Access

Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention: Wrong terms, aims, models and outcomes?

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Key result

The authors argue that current models of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention are outdated and propose shifting to flexible, patient-centered heart health and wellness programmes.

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Editorial

Authors

DTDavid R. ThompsonWesleyan University CSChantal F. SkiPreventive Cardiology ACAlexander M. ClarkHeart Failure & Transplant

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Implication

This commentary highlights the need to modernize cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention by adopting holistic, patient-centered models and terminology focused on heart health and wellness.

Key Points

To critically evaluate existing terminology, goals, delivery models, and outcome measures in cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention.
Narrative synthesis tracing the historical development of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention from the 1940s to contemporary practice.
Critical appraisal of conventional hospital-based delivery structures, clinical endpoints, and persistent barriers to referral, enrollment, and completion.
Conventional terminology and rigid hospital schedules restrict patient uptake and completion, especially among women, older adults, and minority ethnic groups.
Program outcomes remain disproportionately centered on biological indicators and mortality rather than patient-reported endpoints like anxiety, depression, and social functioning.
Adopting flexible, modular community programs and digital telehealth formats offers a more accessible approach to long-term risk reduction and health promotion.

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Cardiovascular disease

Intervention / Comparator

Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention

This commentary highlights the need to modernize cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention by adopting holistic, patient-centered models and terminology focused on heart health and wellness.

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Thompson et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention was evaluated. The authors argue that current models of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention are outdated and propose shifting to flexible, patient-centered heart health and wellness programmes.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a915db785dcbcf0c3dd4481 https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319834385

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Cardiovascular prevention

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This commentary highlights the need to modernize cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention by adopting holistic, patient-centered models and terminology focused on heart health and wellness.

Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention: Wrong terms, aims, models and outcomes?

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