ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2021
Mobile Technology Improves Adherence to Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Propensity Score-Matched Study.
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- Evaluating a technologically enhanced rehabilitation programme for wound healing in patients with coronary heart disease.International wound journal · 2024Trial
- The Added Value of Remote Technology in Cardiac Rehabilitation on Physical Function, Anthropometrics, and Quality of Life: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Digital cardiac rehabilitation versus traditional cardiac rehabilitation in improving health parameters, patient satisfaction and adherence to guidelines-a systematic review and a meta-analysis.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing as an Incentive to Enhance Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation in Acute Coronary Syndrome Survivors: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial with Determinant Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Literature Review of Benefits, Challenges, and Emerging Approaches.Cureus · 2025Review
- mHealth Support in Cardiac Care Pathways for Patient Self-Management During Transitions From Hospital to Rehabilitation: Exploratory Field Study.JMIR cardio · 2025Article
- Effects of a digitally enabled cardiac rehabilitation intervention on risk factors, recurrent hospitalization and mortality.European heart journal. Digital health · 2025Article
- Efficacy and safety of remote cardiac rehabilitation in the recovery phase of cardiovascular diseases (RecRCR study): A multicenter, nonrandomized, and interventional trial in Japan.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2024Article
- Comprehensive and personalized approach is a critical area for developing remote cardiac rehabilitation programs.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- World Heart Federation Roadmap for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: 2023 Update.Global heart · 2024Article
- Frailty and heart failure: State-of-the-art review.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2023Review
- A randomized trial of a mobile health intervention to augment cardiac rehabilitation.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Article
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Facebook Intervention: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR cardio · 2023Article
- Telemonitoring during Exercise Training in Cardiac Telerehabilitation: A Review.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- A New Era in Cardiac Rehabilitation Delivery: Research Gaps, Questions, Strategies, and Priorities.Circulation · 2023Review
- Cardiac rehabilitation: Effective yet underutilized in patients with cardiovascular disease.Clinical cardiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Background Despite its established effectiveness, adherence to cardiac rehabilitation remains suboptimal. The purpose of our study is to examine whether mobile technology improves adherence to cardiac rehabilitation and other outcomes. Methods and Results We identified all enrollees of the cardiac rehabilitation program at Boston Medical Center from 2016 to 2019 (n=830). Some enrollees used a mobile technology application that provided a customized list of educational content in a progressive manner, used the patient's smartphone accelerometer to provide daily step counts, and served as a 2-way messaging system between the patient and program staff. Adherence to cardiac rehabilitation was defined as the number of attended sessions and completion of the program. Enrollees had a mean age of 59 years; 32% were women, and 42% were Black. Using 3:1 propensity matching for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking status, transportation time, diagnosis, and baseline depression survey score, we evaluated change in exercise capacity, weight, functional capacity, and nutrition scores. Those in the mobile technology group (n=114) attended a higher number of prescribed sessions (mean 28 versus 22; relative risk, 1.17; 95% CI, 1.04-1.32;
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