Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/1942/13705
Title: | Can level of education, accreditation and use of databases in cardiac rehabilitation be improved? Results from the European Cardiac Rehabilitation Inventory Survey | Authors: | Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe Bjarnason-Wehrens, Birna McGee, Hannah Piepoli, Massimo F. Benzer, Werner Schmid, Jean-Paul DENDALE, Paul Pogosova, Nana-Goar V. Zdrenghea, Dumitru Niebauer, Josef Mendes, Miguel Doherty, Patrick Garcia-Porrero, Esteban Rauch, Bernhard Gaita, Dan |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Source: | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, 19 (2), p. 143-150 | Abstract: | Introduction: Professional skills, education and accreditation, along with clinical outcome assessment, are considered important factors to achieve comprehensive delivery and quality of cardiac rehabilitation (CR). This study assessed professional educational programmes, accreditation and use of databases in CR across the European countries. Materials and methods: Questions on professional education, accreditation and clinical databases from the European Cardiac Rehabilitation Inventory Survey, which is a postal questionnaire survey, conducted from November 2007 to January 2009 among national CR-related organizations in Europe; 28 countries responded (72%) to this survey. Results: Among the participating countries, 32% had guidelines on professional CR skills, 61% had formal educational programmes and 29% had accreditation systems for professional CR skills. One hundred and seventy-four ad-hoc educational and scientific activities were registered during 2005-2007. Forty-three percent of the countries had established CR programme accreditation systems, primarily aimed at phase 2. One in three (35%) countries had established clinical CR databases with a further 25% planning to do so. Conclusion: More than half of the European countries had developed formal CR educational programmes. Furthermore, many ad-hoc CR-related meetings and conference activities take place across Europe. Although only a quarter of countries had developed accreditation systems aimed at professionals, programme accreditation was somewhat more widespread with over a third having programme accreditation systems. Clinical databases were underdeveloped. A greater focus on education, accreditation and database implementation is needed to promote CR availability and the quality of CR services for the benefit of cardiac patients across Europe. | Notes: | [Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe] Rigshosp, Dept Cardiol, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark. [Bjarnason-Wehrens, Birna] German Sport Univ Cologne, Inst Cardiol & Sports Med, Cologne, Germany. [McGee, Hannah] Royal Coll Surgeons Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland. [Piepoli, Massimo F.] G Saliceto Polichirurg Hosp, Dept Cardiol, Heart Failure Unit, Piacenza, Italy. [Benzer, Werner] Landeskrankenhaus, Dept Intervent Cardiol, Feldkirch, Austria. [Schmid, Jean-Paul] Univ Hosp Bern, Swiss Cardiovasc Ctr Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. [Dendale, Paul] Hartctr Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium. [Dendale, Paul] Univ Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium. [Pogosova, Nana-Goar V.] Natl Res Ctr Prevent Med, Moscow, Russia. [Zdrenghea, Dumitru] Univ Med & Pharm, Cluj Napoca, Romania. [Niebauer, Josef] Paracelsus Private Med Univ, Univ Inst Sports Med Prevent & Rehabil, Salzburg, Austria. [Mendes, Miguel] Hosp Santa Cruz, Inst Coracao, Lisbon, Portugal. [Doherty, Patrick] St John Univ, York, N Yorkshire, England. [Garcia-Porrero, Esteban] Hosp Lein, Serv Cardiol, Madrid, Spain. [Rauch, Bernhard] Zentrum Ambulante Kardiol & Angiol Rehabil, Ludwigshafen, Germany. [Gaita, Dan] Univ Med & Pharm, Cardiac Rehabil Clin, Timisoara, Romania. ado@dadlnet.dk | Keywords: | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems; Accreditation; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiovascular disease; databases; education;Accreditation; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiovascular disease; databases; education | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/13705 | DOI: | 10.1177/1741826711398847 | ISI #: | 000302449500001 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2013 |
Appears in Collections: | Research publications |
Show full item record
SCOPUSTM
Citations
13
checked on Sep 2, 2020
WEB OF SCIENCETM
Citations
11
checked on Apr 22, 2024
Page view(s)
100
checked on Apr 26, 2023
Google ScholarTM
Check
Altmetric
Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.