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Can a heart failure-specific cardiac rehabilitation program decrease hospitalizations and improve outcomes in high-risk patients?

Author: Davidson, P. M. Country/countries: Australia Number of patients participating in the study: 105 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: N/A Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring and action-based behavioural techniques and shared decision making, and social support delivered in groups Intervention components: E+MT+AB+SD+SS+G
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Primary care centers (GPs) Professionals delivering the intervention: Dietician/nutritionist, Nurses, Ocuppational therapist, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Healthy sleep habits, Medication use and adherence, Physical activity /exercise, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity 6-min walking test (6MWT)
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class of chronic HF
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital readmissions N/A
Hospital admissions Cardiovascular-related hospital admissions N/A
N/A N/A N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 72.74 years Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital readmissions
Hospital admissions - Cardiovascular-related hospital admissions
Quality of life - Quality of life