Communicating the results of research: How do participants of a cardiac rehabilitation RCT prefer to be informed?

Health Expectations

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-330

  Dalal, Hasnain ^a   Wingham, Jennifer ^b   Pritchard, Colin ^b   Northey, Sharon ^b   Evans, Philip ^c   Taylor, Rod S ^a   Campbell, John ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aggregate results; cardiac rehabilitation; communicating; RCT

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955332772     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2009.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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