The Design and Implementation of a Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

Fed Pract. 2017 May;34(5):34-39.

Authors

Gregory Rohrbach¹, David W Schopfer¹, Nirupama Krishnamurthi¹, Mark Pabst¹, Michael Bettencourt¹, Jo Loomis¹, Mary A Whooley¹

Affiliation

¹ is a nurse practitioner, is a staff cardiologist, is the operations manager, measurement science QUERI, is an exercise physiologist, and is director of the measurement science QUERI, all at San Francisco VA Healthcare System in California. Dr. Schopfer is assistant professor of medicine, is an assistant professor, is a postdoctoral fellow, and Dr. Whooley is a professor of medicine, all at University of California, San Francisco.

PMID: 30766279
PMCID: PMC6370433

Abstract

A home-based cardiac rehabilitation program improves access and enrollment by using an evidence-based alternative model of care.