A cost-analysis of an existing gym-based program was compared with a proposed home-based program for delivering cardiac rehabilitation services in West Moreton, Queensland. Cost and baseline data were collected on 95 cardiac rehabilitation patients living in Ipswich and West Moreton. Cost data included costs to the program funders and patients. The average cost per patient rehabilitated was $1,...

background: patients with psychological problems after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) show poorer outcomes; nevertheless, there is a paucity of research into the effects of cardiac rehabilitation programs on such patients. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of phase iii cardiac rehabilitation programs on the anxiety and quality of life of anxious patients who had...

BACKGROUND Exercise is an essential component of contemporary cardiac rehabilitation programs for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Despite the benefits associated with regular exercise, adherence with supervised exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation remains low. Increasingly powerful mobile technologies, such as smartphones and wireless physiological sensors, may extend the c...

Background: Anxiety and depression are the most common complications after coronary artery bypass surgery. Although patients may gain some physical and psychological benefit from cardiac rehabilitation after cardiac surgery, but some individuals and social aspects may change the cardiac rehabilitation procedure. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of short-term cardiac rehabi...

We introduce a cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) that utilizes only a smartphone, with no external devices. As an efficient guide for cardiac rehabilitation exercise, we developed an application to automatically indicate the exercise intensity by comparing the estimated heart rate (HR) with the target heart rate zone (THZ). The HR is estimated using video images of a fingertip taken by the s...

BACKGROUND Telerehabilitation has been proposed as an adjunct/alternative to standard center-based cardiac rehabilitation. Two recent systematic reviews showed non-inferiority and/or superiority of this remote approach for cardiac rehabilitation. However, these trials focused only on one core component of cardiac rehabilitation and telemonitoring, rather than implementing a more comprehensive a...