Cardiac Specialists’ Perspectives on Barriers to Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral and Participation in a Low-Resource Setting

Background: Cardiac specialists are arguably the most influential providers in ensuring patients access cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Physician barriers to referral have been scantly investigated outside of high-income settings, and not qualitatively. Aim: This study investigated cardiac specialists’...

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Main Authors: Mahdieh Ghanbari-Firoozabadi, Masoud Mirzaei, Khadijeh Nasiriani, Mozhgan Hemati, Jamal Entezari, Mohammadreza Vafaeinasab, Sherry L Grace, Hasan Jafary, Seyed Mahmood Sadrbafghi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-08-01
Series:Rehabilitation Process and Outcome
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1179572720936648