Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients with assessment for depression or depressive symptoms.

The total number of enrolled patients who are screened for depressive symptoms or depression using a validated tool. Enrolment is defined as patient attendance at a first CR program visit. A validated tool is defined as a self-report survey or clinical interview with known and accepted psychometric properties of reliability and validity for this population.

The total number of patients discharged from the CR program. Program discharge is defined as patient participated in at least some of the program and the file was closed out by the CR team.

Denominators, Exclusions: • Patients who died before being discharged from CR program. • Patients who are re-admitted to hospital before being discharged from CR program. • Patients who have already accessed care from a mental health professional before CR initiation.

Program databases and/or Canadian Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry.

Grace SL, Poirier P, Norris CM, Oakes GH, Somanader DS, Suskin N. Pan-Canadian development of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention quality indicators. Can J Cardiol. 2014;30(8):945-8.

Original References. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0828282X14002335?via%3Dihub#appsec3 Extracted data from Supplementary material. ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0828282X14002335-mmc1.pdf

Canadian Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry (Cardiologica)