Education of Physicians and Implementation of a Formal Referral System Can Improve Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral and Participation Rates after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 806-816

  Dahhan, Ali ^a   Maddox, William R ^b   Krothapalli, Siva ^a   Farmer, Matthew ^b   Shah, Amit ^b   Ford, Benjamin ^b   Rhodes, Marc ^b   Matthews, Laurie ^b   Barnes, Vernon A ^c   Sharma, Gyanendra K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Prevention Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac rehabilitation; Education; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Prevention; Referral

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REHABILITATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TERTIARY HEALTHCARE;

EID: 84938201350     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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