The Gap in Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral

[...]CR services are vastly underutilized (3,4). Nationally, accountability efforts are also being implemented to help improve the delivery of CR to eligible patients, including performance measures for CR referral (14) that have been included in national data registries (including the National Card...

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 65; no. 19; pp. 2089 - 2090
Main Author Thomas, Randal J., MD, MS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Limited 19.05.2015
Subjects
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular disease
Heart attacks
Internal Medicine
Medical treatment
Mortality
Participation
Patients
Studies
gap in care
cardiovascular disease
secondary prevention
quality improvement
cardiac rehabilitation
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Summary:[...]CR services are vastly underutilized (3,4). Nationally, accountability efforts are also being implemented to help improve the delivery of CR to eligible patients, including performance measures for CR referral (14) that have been included in national data registries (including the National Cardiovascular Data Registry), in key cardiovascular performance measure sets, including PCI performance measures (15), and in the Physician Quality Reporting System, a quality improvement program that is maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.03.521