Cardiac rehabilitation: Call to action for healthcare providers

Circulation

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 671-673

  Bittner, Vera ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

delivery of health care; Editorials; mortality; outcome assessment (health care); prevention; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART REHABILITATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 84864667649     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.121855     Document Type: Editorial

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