[Rehabilitation after myocardial infarct. Assessment of result and possibilities for the prognosis of success].

Data of 253 patients with acute myocardial infarction (data collected from primary hospital, from the rehabilitation center-- R.C.-- and from a questionnaire dealing with the individual problems of the rehabilitation period; response rate 77%) were correlated in order to derive criteria for the estimation of the success of rehabilitation. It could be shown that the increase in physical performance and the clinical judgement in the R.C. are well paralleled by the further course of the rehabilitation period (return to work etc.). On the other hand it seemed difficult to predict rehabilitative results from the hospital data alone. It was only shown that the severity of the disease had a major influence upon rate of and interval, before return to work.