Remotely delivered exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: Design and content development of a novel mHealth platform

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Rawstorn, Jonathan C ^a   Gant, Nicholas ^a   Meads, Andrew ^a   Warren, Ian ^a   Maddison, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behavioral medicine; Myocardial ischemia; Remote sensing technology; Telemedicine; Telerehabilitation; Wireless technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060881882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5501     Document Type: Article

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