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1.Why #cardiacrehab should not return to ‘normal’. A thread – Increasing participation in cardiac rehab could save lives, reduce hospital admissions, reduce morbidity, and increase patient quality of life https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2047487319848533?journalCode=cprc
2. Providing patients with a choice of participating in centre based or home-based #cardiacrehab may eliminate some barriers to attending, and increase overall participation in cardiac rehab
3. Prior to #COVID19, only ~8.8% patients in the UK participated in home-based #cardiacrehab https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/publications/statistics/national-audit-of-cardiac-rehabilitation-quality-and-outcomes-report-2019 @nacr
4. Wider availability of high quality home-based cardiac rehab programmes is recommended as a way of increasing participation in cardiac rehab https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007130.pub4/full
5. Our recent @bacpr mixed methods international survey publish in @bmjopen reported on how technology has been used to deliver cardiac rehab during the #COVID19 pandemic https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/11/4/e046051.full.pdf
6. Since the start of the #COVID19 pandemic, technology was adopted to deliver home-based #cardiacrehab faster than ever before (Figure 1) suggesting a step change in the capacity of cardiac rehab programmes to deliver home-based programmes.
7. Once the #COVID19 pandemic is no-longer the driving force behind decision making, we must sustain and expand this renewed capacity to offer to home-based healthcare so that thousand of patients each year can access and benefit from #cardiacrehab
8. Returning to face-to-face #cardiacrehab will benefit patients who wish to receive care in this way. However returning to ‘normal’ and offering centre-based rehab as the ‘default’ will miss an opportunity to help more patients access care anywhere and benefit from cardiac rehab
9. Thanks to all our project collaborators @A_ODoherty Helen Humphreys, @susandawkes @aynsleycowie @HintonSa Peter Brubaker @drtom_butler @bacpr
