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Centre-based cardiac rehabilitation is being postponed and deprioritized as a routine clinical service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Highlights the importance of maintaining cardiac rehabilitation services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please don't postpone my cardiac rehabilitation class," pleaded the concerned patient with recently diagnosed coronary artery disease in an email sent to hospital management. This plea highlights how some routine clinical services, including centre-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR), take a back seat during times of crisis such as the current COVID-19 outbreak.
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Yeo et al. (2020) studied this question. Centre-based cardiac rehabilitation is being postponed and deprioritized as a routine clinical service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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