Current role and future perspectives of cardiac rehabilitation in coronary heart disease

Table 1 Some of the challenges concerning cardiac rehabilitation uptake and completion

Suboptimal referral rates

Limited access (centre availability, geographical issues, transportation, etc.)

Challenges concerning programme design (working hours, participant characteristics, etc.)

Low participation of different subsets of patients (women, elderly, patients with multiple comorbidities, etc.)

Language barriers

Socio-economic issues

Low motivation and/or low self-efficacy

Challenges in the patient/provider relationship

Lack of knowledge concerning cardiac rehabilitation