AACVPR's Performance Measures for Program Certification help answer the most important questions in healthcare today:
- Are patients improving?
- Is care consistent and high‑quality?
- Are we delivering value—not just volume?
Demonstration of performance measures through AACVPR Program Certification provides objective, transparent evidence that the answer is yes.
Patient-Centered Performance Measure Specifications and Resources
Cardiac Rehab
- Optimal Blood Pressure Control at Completion of CR
- Improvement in Depression at Completion of CR
- Improvement in Functional Capacity of at Completion of CR
- Tobacco Use Intervention for CR
Pulmonary Rehab
- Improvement in Dyspnea at Completion of PR
- Improvement in Functional Capacity at Completion of PR
- Improvement in Health-related Quality of Life at Completion of PR
Value-Based Care/Program Level Performance Measures Specifications and Resources
The Value-Based Care/Program Level Performance Measures were first released with the 2023 Program Certification Application. With their release, the Quality of Care Committee released a new FAQs document to answer the most frequently asked questions about the new measures.
Review Frequently Asked Questions
Enrollment in Cardiac Rehab
Enrollment in Pulmonary Rehab
Adherence to Cardiac Rehab
Adherence to Pulmonary Rehab
Improve Data Quality
This 2023 Quality of Care Committee presentation includes information regarding current performance measure data that has been submitted during the program certification process, and ways programs can improve the quality of their data.
Registry Users: Access Your Performance Measure Results
All Registry users have access to reports that automatically calculate the Performance Measures. These step-by-step instructions will help you access to access your performance measures data in the AACVPR Outpatient Data Registries, and will explain how results are calculated.