Cardiac Rehabilitation to Optimize Medication Regimens in Heart Failure. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an inherently patient-centered program that provides holistic care to adults with cardiovascular conditions to promote lifelong health and fitness, facilitate self-care and self-efficacy, and improve clinical outcomes. CR offers an excellent platform for patient-centered optimization of medication regimens for older adults with heart failure through its potential to address several aspects of care that have historically served as major challenges to clinicians-diuretic management, the use of guideline-directed medical therapy, review and reconciliation of noncardiovascular medications, and optimization of medication adherence. In this review, these challenges are described and strategies offered for leveraging CR toward addressing them.

publication date

  • June 21, 2019

Research

keywords

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Drug Utilization
  • Heart Failure
  • Medication Adherence
  • Quality of Life

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7233375

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85069723284

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.cger.2019.06.001

PubMed ID

  • 31543185

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 35

issue

  • 4