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Health Care Use and Expenditures Associated With Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Eligible Medicare Fee‐for‐Service Beneficiaries

Journal of the American Heart Association

Differenceindifferences analyses were used to compare differences in outcomes before (20142015) and after (20182019; 2year CR period=20162017) the CR period between participants and nonparticipants.ResultsWe identified 57 668 CReligible beneficiaries after matching, with equal numbers of participants and nonparticipants.

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Rationale and Design of the mTECH?Rehab Randomized Controlled Trial: Impact of a Mobile Technology Enabled Corrie Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on Functional Status and Cardiovascular Health

Journal of the American Heart Association

The primary outcome is the mean difference between the intervention versus control groups in distance walked on the 6‐minute walk test (ie, functional capacity) at 12 weeks post randomization.

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Lead Author Title Publication Date Jacob Raphael Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Pulmonary Complications: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2024 Joseph Sabik Multi-Arterial versus Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery: Ten Year Follow-up of One Million (..)

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Program Designations Access and Publications (A&P) 1 Participant User File (PUF) 2 Task Force on Funded Research (TFR) 3 Special Projects 4 Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Lead Author Title Publication Date William Keeling 2 National Trends in Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery October 2023 Jake (..)

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Inequalities in access to and outcomes of cardiac surgery in England: retrospective analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (2010-2019)

Heart BMJ

Background We aimed to characterise the variation in access to and outcomes of cardiac surgery for people in England. Methods We included people >18 years of age with hospital admission for ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and heart valve disease (HVD) between 2010 and 2019.