What is the current state of cardiac rehabilitation delivery and infrastructure in Europe?
There is a significant underutilization of cardiac rehabilitation in Europe, highlighting the need for improved legislation, funding, and infrastructure.
Fewer than half of eligible cardiovascular patients benefit from CR in most European countries. Deficits include absent or inadequate legislation, funding, professional guidelines and information systems in many countries. Priorities for improvement include promoting national laws and guidelines specific for CR and increasing both CR programme participation rates and CR infrastructure. The European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation can have an important coordinating role in sharing expertise among national CR-related agencies. Ultimately, such cooperation can accelerate CR delivery to the benefit of cardiac patients across Europe.
Bjarnason‐Wehrens et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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