Achieving national service framework standards for cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7387, 2003, Pages 481-484

  Dalal, Hasnain M ^a,c   Evans, Philip H ^b  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Lower Lemon Street Surgery ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0037374326     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.481     Document Type: Article

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