U.S., Sept. 10 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07811102) titled 'Hospital-to-Home Transitional Cardiac Rehabilitation After Cardiac Surgery' on Sept. 18, 2023.
Brief Summary: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves outcomes after cardiac surgery, but is usually delivered on a fixed centre-based schedule that requires repeated daytime hospital attendance. A hybrid model, in which supervised training begins in hospital and then transitions to monitored home-based training, may make the service reachable for more patients without reducing supervision during the early postoperative period.
This single-blind randomised controlled trial compared a hospital-to-home transitional (hybrid) CR programme with...