Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in heart transplant recipients

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Anderson, Lindsey ^a   Nguyen, Tricia T ^a   Dall, Christian H ^b   Burgess, Laura ^c   Bridges, Charlene ^d   Taylor, Rod S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETURN TO WORK; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REHABILITATION;

CARDIAC REHABILITATION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH-INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85017133930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012264.pub2     Document Type: Review

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