- Recommendation ID
- CG126/4
- Question
- Cardiac rehabilitation:- Is an 8-week, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, cardiac rehabilitation service
more clinically and cost effective for managing stable angina than current clinical practice? - Any explanatory notes
(if applicable) - Why this is important:- Cardiac rehabilitation programmes are an established treatment strategy for certain heart conditions, such as for people who have had a heart attack. However, there is no evidence to suggest that cardiac rehabilitation is clinically or cost effective for managing stable angina. Research to date has looked at short-term outcomes, such as a change in diet or exercise levels, but the effect on morbidity and mortality has not been studied. A randomised controlled trial is required to compare comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation with standard care in people with stable angina, with measures of angina severity (exercise capacity, angina frequency, use of a short-acting nitrate), and long-term morbidity and mortality as endpoints.
Source guidance details
- Comes from guidance
- Stable angina: management
- Number
- CG126
- Date issued
- July 2011
Other details
| Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research? | No |
| Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register? | No |