Cardiac rehabilitation availability and delivery in Europe: How does it differ by region and compare with other high-income countries?: Endorsed by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology

Abreu, Ana; Pesah, Ella; Supervia, Marta; Turk-Adawi, Karam; Bjarnason-Wehrens, Birna; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco; Ambrosetti, Marco; Andersen, Karl; Giga, Vojislav; Vulic, Dusko; Vataman, Eleonora; Gaita, Dan; Cliff, Jacqueline; Kouidi, Evangelia; Yagci, Ilker; Simon, Attila; Hautala, Arto; Tamuleviciute-Prasciene, Egle; Kemps, Hareld; Eysymontt, Zbigniew; Farsky, Stefan; Hayward, Jo; Prescott, Eva; Dawkes, Susan; Pavy, Bruno; Kiessling, Anna; Sovova, Eliska; Grace, Sherry L

Abstract

Aims: The aims of this study were to establish cardiac rehabilitation availability and density, as well as the nature of
programmes, and to compare these by European region (geoscheme) and with other high-income countries.
Methods: A survey was administered to cardiac rehabilitation programmes globally. Cardiac associations were engaged
to facilitate programme identification. Density was computed using global burden of disease study ischaemic heart
disease incidence estimates. Four high-income countries were selected for comparison (N¼790 programmes) to
European data, and multilevel analyses were performed.
Results: Cardiac rehabilitation was available in 40/44 (90.9%) European countries. Data were collected in 37 (94.8%
country response rate). A total of 455/1538 (29.6% response rate) programme respondents initiated the survey.
Programme volumes (median 300) were greatest in western European countries, but overall were higher than in
other high-income countries (P

Citation

Abreu, A., Pesah, E., Supervia, M., Turk-Adawi, K., Bjarnason-Wehrens, B., Lopez-Jimenez, F., Ambrosetti, M., Andersen, K., Giga, V., Vulic, D., Vataman, E., Gaita, D., Cliff, J., Kouidi, E., Yagci, I., Simon, A., Hautala, A., Tamuleviciute-Prasciene, E., Kemps, H., Eysymontt, Z., …Grace, S. L. (2019). Cardiac rehabilitation availability and delivery in Europe: How does it differ by region and compare with other high-income countries?: Endorsed by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 26(11), 1128-1130. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319827453

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 9, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Feb 20, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Deposit Date: Feb 25, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 26, 2019
• Journal: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
• Print ISSN: 2047-4873
• Electronic ISSN: 2047-4881
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 1128-1130
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319827453
• Keywords: Cardiac rehabilitation, Europe, survey
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1614259
• Contract Date: Feb 25, 2019