European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes
Cardiac rehabilitation programme accreditation and certification: Comparing international practices, mapping standards, benchmarks, and future directions – A scoping review
Abstract Aims Programme accreditation and certification are key mechanisms for standardising, assuring, and continuously improving the quality of cardiac rehabilitation. Comparative evidence on existing accreditation and certification schemes remains limited. This review compared these schemes to identify key characteristics, standards, convergences, divergences, implementation, and gaps to inform future quality improvement directions. Methods A scoping review following PRISMA-ScR guidelines was conducted searching …