Gabriela Lima de Melo Ghisi

Delivery of cardiac rehabilitation through hybrid models and alternative settings by country income classification and decade: Comparisons from the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation’s 2025 Global Audit Update

Objective Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an outpatient model of secondary prevention that improves patient outcomes, yet use remains limited. Hybrid/alternative CR addresses these challenges, but global availability, structure, and volumes have not been characterized since the pa...

Cardiac rehabilitation coverage and program characteristics in Latin America and the Caribbean: Comparisons from the ICCPR’s 2025 Global Audit Update

Introduction Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a proven, cost-effective secondary prevention intervention. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) bears a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular diseases yet limited CR availability. This Global Audit aimed to characterize CR coverag...