The article discusses deficits in UK cardiac rehabilitation programs and proposes enhanced nursing roles to improve care.
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Potential deficits in UK cardiac rehab may warrant enhanced nursing roles; leaves open whether such changes improve outcomes.
Coronary heart disease is the major cause of death in the UK, but cardiac rehabilitation programmes have tended to develop in an ad hoc and unsystematic way. This article considers some of the deficits in current practice and suggests ways in which nurses can contribute more fully to care in this area.
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