Reporting and Replicating Trials of Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation: Do We Know What the Researchers Actually Did?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 187-194

  Abell, Bridgetc ^a   Glasziou, Paul ^a   Hoffmann, Tammy ^a,b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exercise; heart disease; rehabilitation; trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; E-MAIL; EXERCISE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CHECKLIST; HEART DISEASES; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHECKLIST; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937569313     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.114.001381     Document Type: Article

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