Tracking Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation and Completion Among Medicare Beneficiaries to Inform the Efforts of a National Initiative

• Published in: Circulation Cardiovascular quality and outcomes Vol. 13; no. 1; p. e005902
• Main Authors: Ritchey, Matthew D., Maresh, Sha, McNeely, Jessica, Shaffer, Thomas, Jackson, Sandra L., Keteyian, Steven J., Brawner, Clinton A., Whooley, Mary A., Chang, Tiffany, Stolp, Haley, Schieb, Linda, Wright, Janet
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Heart Association, Inc 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cardiac Rehabilitation - trends; Databases, Factual; Eligibility Determination - trends; Female; Healthcare Disparities - trends; Heart Diseases - diagnosis; Heart Diseases - ethnology; Heart Diseases - rehabilitation; Humans; Insurance Benefits - trends; Male; Medicare - trends; Middle Aged; Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care - trends; Patient Compliance; Patient Participation - trends; Prevalence; Sex Factors; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; United States - epidemiology; United States; percutaneous coronary intervention; coronary artery bypass; cardiac rehabilitation; heart diseases; myocardial infarction

Despite cardiac rehabilitation (CR) being shown to improve health outcomes among patients with heart disease, its use has been suboptimal. In response, the Million Hearts Cardiac Rehabilitation Collaborative developed a road map to improve CR use, including increasing participation rates to ≥70% by...