Benefit of in-hospital cardiac rehabilitation on mortality and readmissions in heart failure

The results from the Lombardy healthcare administrative database study of more than 140,000 patients were published in this issue of European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. ¹ The authors of this analysis conducted a retrospective data review in a cohort that was sufficiently powered to detect reductions in mortality and hospital readmission rates between those heart failure patients undertaking in-hospital cardiac rehabilitation versus no cardiac rehabilitation referral.