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Editorial
. 2025 Jul 29;26(1):233.
doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-02953-4.

Exercise prescription and patient outcomes

Lianne Wood  1 , Garrett Ash  2   3   4
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Editorial

Exercise prescription and patient outcomes

Lianne Wood et al. BMC Prim Care. .

Abstract

Exercise is frequently prescribed yet our understanding of how to best optimize exercise prescription is limited, and we do not know which patient outcomes are most important. In this editorial, we outline challenges, innovations and future directions, and invite contributions to BMC Primary Care's "Exercise Prescription and Patient Outcomes" Collection.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Both authors have written and edited this manuscript and approved it for publication. Competing interests: Both authors are Guest Editors of this collection. GIA is a scientific advisor for WellModeled LLC, has a provisional patent filed for a digital system for lifestyle medicine (047162-5346-P1US), and receives professional services from Calm.com (nominal fee), Labfront (full fee), and GlucoseZone (full fee). GIA. attests that none of these entities supported the work and none of them influenced the work, its design, or outcomes. GIA conducted the work outside of his responsibilities and affiliations with these entities.

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