Barriers to cardiac rehabilitation delivery in a low-resource setting from the perspective of healthcare administrators, rehabilitation providers, and cardiac patients

• Main Authors: Thaianne Cavalcante Sérvio (Author), Raquel Rodrigues Britto (Author), Gabriela Lima de Melo Ghisi (Author), Lilian Pinto da Silva (Author), Luciana Duarte Novais Silva (Author), Márcia Maria Oliveira Lima (Author), Danielle Aparecida Gomes Pereira (Author), Sherry L. Grace (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Despite clinical practice guideline recommendations that cardiovascular disease patients participate, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs are highly unavailable and underutilized. This is particularly true in low-resource settings, where the epidemic is at its' worst. The r...