NCT07811102Completed
Hospital-to-Home Transitional Cardiac Rehabilitation After Cardiac Surgery
Hospital-to-Home Transitional Cardiac Rehabilitation as a Transition From Centre-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation After Cardiac Surgery: A Single-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves outcomes after cardiac surgery, but is usually delivered on a fixed centre-based schedule that requires repeated daytime hospital attendance. A hybrid model, in which supervised training begins in hospital and then transitions to monitored home-based training, may make the service reachable for more patients without reducing supervision during the early postoperative period. This single-blind randomised controlled trial compared a hospital-to-home transitional (hybrid) CR programme with conventional centre-based CR in adults at low exercise-training risk after cardiac surgery. Participants were allocated 1:1. Control participants attended twice weekly for 8 weeks (16 supervised sessions). Hybrid participants attended twice weekly for 2 weeks (4 supervised sessions), underwent a repeat risk assessment, and then trained at home for 6 weeks with heart-rate monitoring, a cloud-based care platform, weekly telephone contact and twice-weekly text messages. The primary outcome was peak oxygen uptake measured by cardiopulmonary exercise testing at baseline and 8 weeks. The trial was designed as a pilot study to estimate treatment effect and variability for a future definitive trial.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (actual)
- First submitted
- 18 Sept 2023
- Start date
- 23 Jun 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Nov 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Cheng-Hsin General Hospital
- Diseases
- Coronary artery disease
- NCT number
- NCT07811102
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 30
- From 23 Jun 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Who the study is looking for
- Aged 20 to 75 years.
- Admitted to the department of cardiovascular surgery and undergoing cardiac surgery during the index admission.
- Meeting the indications for cardiac rehabilitation.
- Classified as low risk (Class B) for exercise training according to the 2013 American Heart Association exercise standards, that is, clinically stable coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, or an abnormal exercise test not reaching high-risk criteria.
- Able to self-monitor exercise intensity. Exclusion Criteria
- An irreversible condition causing exercise intolerance or limiting exercise capacity.
- Persistent atrial fibrillation or non-sustained ventricular tachycardia within the preceding six months, an implanted defibrillator, or any other rhythm that could compromise the reliability of home heart-rate recording.
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or recent myocarditis.
- New York Heart Association class III or IV; angina or ischaemic electrocardiographic change during moderate-intensity exercise; a fall in systolic blood pressure during exercise; non-sustained ventricular tachycardia; previous cardiac arrest; or any condition judged by the physician to be potentially life-threatening.
- During the study, reported adverse symptoms or escalation of exercise-training risk to Class C or D, including suspected angina, abnormal dyspnoea, vomiting or syncope, or an emergency department visit or readmission.
- Unable to operate the communication and exercise applications independently.
- Declined to take part in testing.
Age in the registry: 20 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheng Hsin General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
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