The Italian survey on cardiac rehabilitation-2008 (ISYDE-2008): a snapshot of current cardiac rehabilitation programmes and provides in Italy. Part 2: ISYDE-2008 investigators and directory of Italian cardiac rehabilitation centers.

From January 28th to February 10th, 2008 the Italian Society of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention (GICR) conducted a national web-based survey aimed to provide specific and updated information on organization and core components of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in Italy, and to describe, both in residential and out-patient settings, indications for CR, clinical characteristics of referred patients, risk profile, performed diagnostic procedures, exercise and educational programme, treatments and arrangements for the follow-up [1, 2]. The ISYDE-2008 is a multicenter, longitudinal, prospective observation study whose design was previously described [1, 2].