A qualitative study exploring patients' experiences of standard care or cardiac rehabilitation post minor stroke and transient ischaemic attack

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 845-853

  Hillsdon, Kaye M ^a   Kersten, Paula ^b   Kirk, Hayden J S ^c,d  

^a Headway Thames Valley   (United Kingdom)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiac rehabilitation; Minor stroke; secondary prevention; transient ischaemic attack

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEART REHABILITATION; MINOR STROKE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STROKE; RECURRENCE;

CARDIAC REHABILITATION; MINOR STROKE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 84881463497     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215513478956     Document Type: Article

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