Increasing Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation From 20% to 70%: A Road Map From the Million Hearts Cardiac Rehabilitation Collaborative

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2017

Publication Title

Mayo Clinic proceedings. Mayo Clinic

Abstract

The primary aim of the Million Hearts initiative is to prevent 1 million cardiovascular events over 5 years. Concordant with the Million Hearts' focus on achieving more than 70% performance in the "ABCS" of aspirin for those at risk, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation, we outline the cardiovascular events that would be prevented and a road map to achieve more than 70% participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR)/secondary prevention programs by the year 2022. Cardiac rehabilitation is a class Ia recommendation of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology after myocardial infarction or coronary revascularization, promotes the ABCS along with lifestyle counseling and exercise, and is associated with decreased total mortality, cardiac mortality, and rehospitalizations. However, current participation rates for CR in the United States generally range from only 20% to 30%. This road map focuses on interventions, such as electronic medical record-based prompts and staffing liaisons that increase referrals of appropriate patients to CR, increase enrollment of appropriate individuals into CR, and increase adherence to longer-term CR. We also calculate that increasing CR participation from 20% to 70% would save 25,000 lives and prevent 180,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States.

Medical Subject Headings

American Heart Association; Cardiac Rehabilitation; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.); Humans; Myocardial Infarction; Myocardial Revascularization; Patient Compliance; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Secondary Prevention; United States

PubMed ID

27855953

Volume

92

Issue

2

First Page

234

Last Page

242

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