Increasing Cardiac Rehabilitation Referrals Through an Outpatient Intervention

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, and Department of Medicine, Cardiology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada.

Jeffrey Fraser Spindel et al. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 1;41(6):434-435.

doi: 10.1097/HCR.0000000000000636.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, and Department of Medicine, Cardiology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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