An investigation into whether cardiac risk stratification protocols actually predict complications in cardiac rehabilitation programs?

CONCLUSION: The AACVPR protocol showed a significant relationship between the risk classes and the occurrence of simple complications, however, the low values obtained for sensitivity, specificity and accuracy show that it is not useful for this purpose.
CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: NCT03446742.
PMID: 33292000 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Rehabilitation - December 8, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Ribeiro F, Takahashi C, Vanzella LM, Laurino MJL, Lima IM, Silva VEDS, Silva JPLN, Valente HB, da Silva AKF, Christofaro DGD, Vanderlei LCM Tags: Clin Rehabil Source Type: research