What patient and physician factors contribute to cardiac rehabilitation enrollment?
Addressing patient barriers, improving physician endorsement, and providing home-based services may improve cardiac rehabilitation enrollment.
Both physician and patient factors play a part in CR enrollment. Patient CR barriers should be addressed during referral discussions, and reasons why physicians fail to uniformly endorse CR exploration. Although distance to CR was related to patient enrollment patterns, greater access to home-based CR services should be provided.
Grace et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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