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Trial reportBMC cardiovascular disorders2007

Home-based exercise rehabilitation in addition to specialist heart failure nurse care: design, rationale and recruitment to the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation study for patients with congestive heart failure (BRUM-CHF): a randomised controlled trial.

Kate Jolly, Rod S Tayor, Gregory Y H Lip, Sheila M Greenfield, Michael K Davies, Russell C Davis, Jonathan W Mant, Sally J Singh, Jackie T Ingram, Jane Stubley and 1 more

Open access · goldAbstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in BMC cardiovascular disorders, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with heart failure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
    Pooled it
  2. Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with heart failure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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  4. Exercise-based rehabilitation for heart failure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014
    Pooled it
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  6. Geographic Variation in Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Kate JollyDepartment of Public Health & Epidemiology, Public Health Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. c.b.jolly@bham.ac.uk
Rod S Tayor
Gregory Y H Lip
Sheila M Greenfield
Michael K Davies
Russell C Davis
Jonathan W Mant
Sally J Singh
Jackie T Ingram
Jane Stubley
Andrew J Stevens
University of Birmingham · GBSandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · GBBirmingham City Hospital · GBUniversity of Exeter · GBUniversity of Leicester · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExercise has been shown to be beneficial for selected patients with heart failure, but questions remain over its effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and uptake in a real world setting. This paper describes the design, rationale and recruitment for a randomised controlled trial that will explore the effectiveness and uptake of a predominantly home-based exercise rehabilitation programme, as well as its cost-effectiveness and patient acceptability. METHODS/

designRandomised controlled trial comparing specialist heart failure nurse care plus a nurse-led predominantly home-based exercise intervention against specialist heart failure nurse care alone in a multiethnic city population, served by two NHS Trusts and one primary care setting, in the United Kingdom.169 English speaking patients with stable heart failure, defined as systolic impairment (ejection fraction < or = 40%). with one or more hospital admissions with clinical heart failure or New York Heart Association (NYHA) II/III within previous 24-months were recruited.Main outcome measures at 1 year: Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire, incremental shuttle walk test, death or admission with heart failure or myocardial infarction, health care utilisation and costs. Interviews with purposive samples of patients to gain qualitative information about acceptability and adherence to exercise, views about their treatment, self-management of their heart failure and reasons why some patients declined to participate. The records of 1639 patients managed by specialist heart failure services were screened, of which 997 (61%) were ineligible, due to ejection fraction>40%, current NYHA IV, no admission or NYHA II or more within the previous 2 years, or serious co-morbidities preventing physical activity. 642 patients were contacted: 289 (45%) declined to participate, 183 (39%) had an exclusion criterion and 169 (26%) agreed to randomisation. DISCUSSION: Due to safety considerations for home-exercise less than half of patients treated by specialist heart failure services were eligible for the study. Many patients had co-morbidities preventing exercise and others had concerns about undertaking an exercise programme.

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Exercise TherapyHome Care Services, Hospital-BasedRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicCost-Benefit AnalysisExerciseHeart FailureHumansNursing CareOutcome Assessment, Health CarePatient Acceptance of Health CarePatient SelectionQuality of LifeResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID17343738
PMCPMC1821338
OpenAlexW2077248095

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