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Million Hearts® — Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package

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HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: December 2019

Workgroups: Heart Disease and Stroke Workgroup

This resource from Million Hearts® 2022 provides a list of process improvements for increasing cardiac rehabilitation uptake in eligible patient populations. Cardiac rehabilitation is an evidence-based prevention program for improving cardiovascular health after a cardiac-related event or procedure. This change package provides:

  • Guidance on identifying changes to guide process improvement
  • Evidence-based and practice-based tools
  • Resources for implementing the tools

Quality improvement teams can use the interventions, strategies, and evidence-based tools in this package to improve cardiac care and increase the use of cardiac rehabilitation programs. 

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Objectives related to this resource (4)

Improve cardiovascular health in adults — HDS‑01
Little or no detectable change
Reduce coronary heart disease deaths — HDS‑02
Improving
Increase the proportion of adult heart attack survivors who are referred to a rehabilitation program — HDS‑D03
Developmental
Increase the proportion of adult stroke survivors who participate in rehabilitation services — HDS‑D05
Developmental

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Divisions for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. (n.d.). Million Hearts®, Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package. Retrieved from https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/tools-protocols/action-guides/cardiac-change-package/index.html