• DOI:10.1136/ebn.12.3.83
• Corpus ID: 206932288

Home-based cardiac rehab was as effective as hospital-based rehab in improving cardiac risk factors

@article{Thompson2009HomebasedCR,
  title={Home-based cardiac rehab was as effective as hospital-based rehab in improving cardiac risk factors},
  author={David R Thompson},
  journal={Evidence Based Nursing},
  year={2009},
  volume={12},
  pages={83 - 83}
}

• D. Thompson
• Published 24 June 2009
• Medicine
• Evidence Based Nursing

Is home-based cardiac rehabilitation as effective as hospital-based rehabilitation in low-to-moderate–risk patients with recent myocardial infarction or revascularisation procedure?

### Design:

randomised controlled trial. Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN 72884263.

### Allocation:

concealed.

### Blinding:

blinded (outcome assessors).

### Follow-up period:

1 year.

### Setting:

4 hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation centres in West Midlands, UK.

### Patients:

525 patients (mean age 61 y, 77% men) who were referred to the rehabilitation programme within 12 weeks after myocardial infarction (49% of patients), percutaneous coronary angioplasty (40%), or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (11%). High-risk patients were excluded.

### Intervention:

home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme (a manual and ⩾3 home visits and ⩾1 telephone call from a specially trained rehabilitation nurse over 12 …