Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Completion

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Rehabilitation Care
Country
Canada
Publishing Organisation
CorHealth Ontario: Quality Indicators for Virtual Cardiovascular Rehabilitation during COVID-19 and Beyond
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Access

Defining Attributes

Definition

Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

Numerator

The total number of enrolled patients who completed the cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program. To complete the CR program a patient must have attended at least some of the CR intervention components and have had a formal re-assessment by the CR team at the conclusion of the CR intervention. The CR intervention components are defined as per the BACPR Core Components, namely: health behaviour change and education, lifestyle risk factor management, psychosocial health, medical risk factor management, and cardio-protective therapies.

Denominator

The total number of patients enrolled in the CR program. Enrolment is defined as patient attendance at a first CR program visit.

Exclusions

Exclusions: • Patients that experience a recurrent cardiac or other clinical event that prevents a patient from completing the CR program such as a comorbid life-threatening condition, a serious mental illness, or the inability to ambulate.

Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Standardised clinical data
Data Collection Methods

Program databases and/or Canadian Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry.

Frequency of Data Collection
At least annually
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
365
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source

CorHealth Ontario. Quality Indicators for Virtual Cardiovascular Rehabilitation during COVID-19 and Beyond. Accessed May 2023. Available from: www.corhealthontario.ca/Quality-Indicators-for-Virtual-Cardiovascular-Rehabilitation-during-COVID-19-and-Beyond-(May-22-2020).pdf. 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.

Link to Measurement Tools

Canadian Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry (Cardiologica)

Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
12 March 2025