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Adult nursing
Home-based model is an important cost-effective alternative to centre-based cardiac rehabilitation
  1. Ladislav Batalik1,2,
  2. Jing Jing Su3
  1. 1Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  2. 2Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
  3. 3School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ladislav Batalik, Department of Public Health, Masaryk University, Brno 601 77, Czech Republic; batalik.ladislav{at}fnbrno.cz

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103733

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    Commentary on: Shields GE, Rowlandson A, Dalal G, Nickerson S, Cranmer H, Capobianco L, Doherty P. Cost-effectiveness of home-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review. Heart. 2023 Feb 27:heartjnl-2021-320459. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2021-320459. Epub ahead of print.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Home-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a cost-effective alternative/supplementary model to increase CR accessibility, improve health benefits and reduce health service use.

    • More robust clinical trials are needed as the heterogeneity in design, particularly the intervention dosage, staffing models, telehealth features, hybrid approach and individual costs, challenges the evidence base.

    • The psychological care component is missing in the current cost-effectiveness analysis of home-based CR.

    Context

    Despite evidence that exercise-based cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is an effective intervention, patient uptake and adherence are uncertain. Recent research suggests that home-based CR interventions are as effective and safe as those supervised in a centre.1 Therefore, home-based telemedicine programmes may be …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.