Rehabilitation after heart attack
- 14 December 1996
- Vol. 313 (7071) , 1498-1499
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7071.1498
Abstract
Few current programmes have specifically designed psychological components, but a recent review concluded that “the addition of psychosocial treatments to standard cardiac rehabilitation regimens reduces mortality and morbidity, psychological distress and some biological risk factors.”1 However, most published research has evaluated rather prolonged, elaborate interventions with selected …Keywords
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