Trial Comparing Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation With Comprehensive Centre-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients Older Than 65 Years With Coronary Heart Disease. The HOMEBASE Trial (HOME-BASE)

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Coronary Heart Disease

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00489801

KF 11 2006-4305

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypothesis: Home-based cardiac rehabilitation is as effective as comprehensive centre-based cardiac rehabilitation in patients older than 65 years.

Full description

Participation in cardiac rehabilitation is known to reduce mortality and morbidity and increase health related quality of life. However, participation rate are low among elderly cardiac patients with coronary heart disease. Home-based cardiac rehabilitation could be an attractive alternative to the centre-based programmes but studies investigating the effect of these programmes are limited and even less is known about the effect among the elderly.

Enrollment: 115 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Event of coronary heart disease (new myocardial infarction, CABG or PCI)

Exclusion criteria

1. Care home patients.
2. Serious disability incompatible with rehabilitation.
3. Social circumstances incompatible with participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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115 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise intervention

Other group

Description:

Exercise intervention and lifestyle counseling at centre or exercise intervention at home

Treatment:

Other: Exercise