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Review
. 2015 Sep 29:351:h5000.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.h5000.

Cardiac rehabilitation

Hasnain M Dalal  1 , Patrick Doherty  2 , Rod S Taylor  3
Affiliations
Review

Cardiac rehabilitation

Hasnain M Dalal et al. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood the BMJ Group policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests. HMD and PD have co-authored Cochrane reviews in cardiac rehabilitation with RST. RST is an author on several other Cochrane reviews of cardiac rehabilitation. HMD and RST are co-chief investigators on the REACH-HF programme of research, which is developing and evaluating a home based cardiac rehabilitation intervention for people with heart failure and their carers (NIHR PGfAR RP-PG-0611-12004).

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Fig 1 BACPR standards pathway, showing a patient’s journey through cardiac rehabilitation (reproduced with permission from BACPR1). *CR=cardiac rehabilitation
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Fig 2 Core components of cardiac rehabilitation. Reproduced with permission from BACPR
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