Cardiac Rehabilitation After Myocardial Infarction: Combined Experience of Randomized Clinical Trials

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 260, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 945-950

  Oldridge, Neil B ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b   Fischer, Mary E ^c   Rimm, Alfred A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGED; EXERTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023795329     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1988.03410070073031     Document Type: Article

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