Tag Archives: British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
December 2013 Br J Cardiol 2013;20(suppl 3):S1–S19 doi:10.5837/bjc.2013.s04
What is cardiac rehabilitation achieving for patients with CHD? The ASPIRE-2-PREVENT results
Kornelia Kotseva, Elizabeth L Turner, Catriona Jennings, David A Wood, on behalf of ASPIRE-2-PREVENT Study Group
The main objective of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation in clinical practice is to reduce the risk of future vascular events, to improve quality of life and increase life expectancy. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is recommended by the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR).1 This second edition of the Standards and Core Components (SCC) for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation from the BACPR, define CR through seven standards and seven core components for assuring a quality service of care using a multi-disciplinary biological and psychosocial approach.2 However, the implementatio
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