Current Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation in Austria

Paracelsus Medical University (PMU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiovascular Diseases

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical activity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03463486

UISM-11

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of this study is to give evidence to outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in Austria. The database created in this context is supposed to pave the way as instrument to document and comprehend quality of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in Austria as a key for quality management. Analyses of the created database should be made on a regular basis.

Enrollment: 8,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Any patient who meets inclusion criteria for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in Austria -

Exclusion criteria

• Medical conditions which prevent patients from complying with the exercise program
• Acute infections
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Pulmonary artery embolism or phlebothrombosis within the previous 6 months
• Unstable angina pectoris
• Heart failure (NYHA IV)
• Hemodynamically unstable arrhythmia