Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Completion
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
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
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Program databases and/or Canadian Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
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.
Technical Specifications
Updated QIs during COVID-19 and beyond. Page 2. www.corhealthontario.ca/Quality-Indicators-for-Virtual-Cardiovascular-Rehabilitation-during-COVID-19-and-Beyond-(May-22-2020).pdf 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
Link to Measurement Tools
Canadian Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry (Cardiologica)