Benefit of in-hospital cardiac rehabilitation on mortality and readmissions in heart failure

Abstract

<p>The results from the Lombardy healthcare administrative database study of more than 140,000 patients were published in this issue of <i>European Journal of Preventive Cardiology</i>. ¹ The authors of this analysis conducted a retrospective data review in a cohort that was sufficiently powered to detect reductions in mortality and hospital readmission rates between those heart failure patients undertaking in-hospital cardiac rehabilitation versus no cardiac rehabilitation referral.</p>