Secondary prevention among cardiac patients not referred to cardiac rehabilitation (letter)

Title: Secondary prevention among cardiac patients not referred to cardiac rehabilitation (letter)
Creator: Johnson, Natalie A.; Inder, Kerry J.; Nagle, Amanda L.; Wiggers, John H.
Relation: Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 190, Issue 3
Relation: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/190_03_020209/contents_020209.html
Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an underutilised evidence-based treatment. Many patients who are not referred for CR reported having multiple coronary risk factors, yet few felt they would have benefited from attending CR or had participated in any alternative risk-factor-specific programs. We agree that system factors resulting in failure to refer should be investigated and rectified, but our data suggest that many non-referred patients would not attend if invited. This highlights the importance of research testing the efficacy of alternative models of CR in the Australian setting, and the need for research assessing the effectiveness of these programs in routine health services delivery.
Subject: cardiac patients; cardiac rehabilitation; risk factors; prevention programs
Identifier: uon:7001
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/925128
Identifier: ISSN:0025-729X
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