Automatic referrals, plus a patient discussion, may increase use of cardiac rehab
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:10
in Health & Medicine
Automatically referring patients with heart disease to cardiac rehabilitation - when followed by a discussion between patient and clinician - was associated with an increased rate at which patients use this beneficial service, according to a report in the February 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...