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BACPR scientific statement: British standards and core components for cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation
  1. John P Buckley,
  2. Gill Furze,
  3. Patrick Doherty,
  4. Linda Speck,
  5. Susan Connolly,
  6. Sally Hinton,
  7. Jenni L Jones,
  8. on behalf of BACPR
  1. British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR), London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Jennifer L Jones, British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR), c/o The British Cardiovascular Society, 9 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 5HW, UK; bacprpresident{at}bcs.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303460

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    Aims of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation standards and core components

    This second edition of the Standards and Core Components (SCC) for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation from the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) define cardiac rehabilitation (CR), operationally, through seven standards and seven core components for assuring a quality service of care using a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach.1 The seven standards aim to ensure that service commissioners, providers and health professionals are aware of the requirements for providing a multidisciplinary CR team that is competent and thus clinically effective, cost-effective and ultimately cost-saving as a result of preventing hospital readmissions. The seven core components (figure 1), delivered as a coordinated sum of activities aim to best influence uptake, adherence, quality of life and long-term healthier living.2 Details of the full version and related evidence base of the BACPR SCCs can be accessed from the following website: http://www.bacpr.com

    Figure 1

    The seven core components for cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR).

    Current challenges to implementing the evidence and achieving quality outcomes

    Over the past three decades overwhelming evidence on comprehensive CR, which includes exercise, has reported reductions in morbidity and mortality; re-infarctions (47%), cardiac mortality (26–36%) and total mortality (13–26%).3 ,4 Secondary prevention, including blood pressure and cholesterol management and the prescription of cardioprotective medication, now also forms an integral part of an effective CR programme.5 The current evidence base included under the ‘umbrella’ of CR has reported many variations in the ‘dose’ of individual or collective interventions (medical, lifestyle and psychosocial), which may therefore explain the variations of outcomes found in the studies included in the key systematic reviews on CR.3 ,4 More recently published British evidence clearly shows that when the ‘dose’, at least of the exercise component, of CR is below those found in the more ideal research studies, the outcomes (functional …

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    Footnotes

    • Declaration The membership of the 2007 and 2012 BACPR Standards and Core Components’ development groups embody many professional associations working within CR services or allied professional organisations in the UK. The individual members of the development groups, working under the auspices of the BACPR, express no conflict of interests regarding the material contained in this publication.

    • Contributors All authors have made a substantial contribution to the following: conception and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and will be involved in the final approval of the version published. Each author has participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.