Virtual Care-Enabled Cardiac Rehabilitation Did Not Improve Outcomes More Than Usual Care
After a hospital visit for a heart attack or coronary revascularization, older adults who used a mobile health cardiac rehabilitation (mHealth-CR) program had similar functional capacity outcomes as people who participated in usual care cardiac rehabilitation programs. The mHealth-CR program was tested in a study that included 400 people who were randomly assigned to either the mHealth-CR intervention (298 participants) or usual care (102 participants). Functional capacity was defined as improvement in the number of meters walked in six minutes (6MWD).
For healthy individuals, the average 6MWD is between 400 to 700 meters. For a person in . . .