Models of cardiac rehabilitation
- 2 May 1998
- Vol. 316 (7141) , 1329-1330
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.316.7141.1329
Abstract
Papers p 1354 The survey by Lewin and colleagues of cardiac rehabilitation in the United Kingdom paints a picture of services predominantly provided by nurses and physiotherapists, with little formal input from physicians or psychologists, and a need both for more extensive use of validated methods of assessment and of formal audit (p 1354).1 Clinicians will bristle (I bristled) at the insinuation that they are not involved in rehabilitation. Cardiac and general medical outpatients clinics are full, we say, of patients being followed up after myocardial infarction or cardiac surgery. In theory (our theory) this should run parallel with and form part of the formal rehabilitation process. In practice, it often does not. Ten minutes of structured consultant time in the context of …Keywords
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