ArticleKidney international2008
Costs and effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation for dialysis patients following coronary bypass.
Article in Kidney international, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Cost-effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2018Pooled it
- A systematic review of economic evaluations of cardiac rehabilitation.BMC health services research · 2012Pooled it
- Rehabilitation for Cardiorenal Multimorbidity: Epidemiology, Functional Phenotypes, and Effects on Physical Function, Renal Trajectory, and Prognosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- The Economics of Cardiac Rehabilitation in North, Central, and South America: A Narrative Review.The Canadian journal of cardiology · 2025Review
- Cardio-oncology rehabilitation and exercise: evidence, priorities, and research standards from the ICOS-CORE working group.European heart journal · 2025Review
- Prospective Study of the Association Between Frailty and Health Care Utilization in Patients With Advanced CKD.Kidney international reports · 2025Article
- Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effects of 12 Months of Combined Exercise Training during Hemodialysis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease-Study Protocol of the Dialysis Training Therapy (DiaTT) Trial.Methods and protocols · 2021Article
- A Cost-Effective Analysis of the CYCLE-HD Randomized Controlled Trial.Kidney international reports · 2021Article
- Usefulness of frailty evaluation for handling chronic kidney disease elderly patients: a review and original proposal.International urology and nephrology · 2019Review
- Senescent Nephropathy: The New Renal Syndrome.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- The cost-effectiveness of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review of the characteristics and methodological quality of published literature.Health economics review · 2017Review
- Narrative review comparing the benefits of and participation in cardiac rehabilitation in high-, middle- and low-income countries.Heart, lung & circulation · 2015Review
- Influence of comorbidities and inactivity on the long-term outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in a small number of men on chronic hemodialysis.International urology and nephrology · 2013Article
- A Nontraditional Approach to Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Dialysis Center for a Patient with End-stage Renal Disease Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Case Report.Cardiopulmonary physical therapy journal · 2010Article
- Deficient counseling on physical activity among nephrologists.Nephron. Clinical practice · 2010Article
- Functional status of elderly adults before and after initiation of dialysis.The New England journal of medicine · 2009Article
- Therapy Caps and Variation in Cost of Outpatient Occupational Therapy by Provider, Insurance Status, and Geographic Region.The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy AssociationArticle
- Improving cardiac rehabilitation attendance and completion through quality improvement activities and a motivational program.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and preventionArticle
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Abstract
Dialysis patients have a high risk of cardiovascular disease. Cardiac rehabilitation is recommended in the general population as a standard component of care and covered by Medicare for those who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Here we determined the impact of cardiac rehabilitation on Medicare expenditures and its cost effectiveness in dialysis patients. A cohort of 4,324 patients with end-stage renal disease who began chronic hemodialysis and had undergone CABG over a seven year period were selected from the United States Renal Data System. Cardiac rehabilitation was defined by Current Procedural Terminology codes for monitored and non-monitored exercise in Medicare claims data. Medicare expenditures included in and outpatient claims adjusted to 1998 dollars. Over a 42-month follow-up, cardiac rehabilitation at baseline was associated with higher cumulative Medicare expenditures but this increase was not statistically significant. During the same period, cardiac rehabilitation was significantly associated with longer cumulative life, having an incremental benefit of 76 days. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $13,887 per year of life saved suggests that cardiac rehabilitation is highly cost-effective in patients with end-stage renal disease following CABG.
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