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Home-based preoperative rehabilitation (prehab) to improve physical function and reduce hospital length of stay for frail patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that elective cardiac patients are at risk of functional and psychological deterioration in the time preceding surgery. This poses a risk to successful post-operative rehabilitation. This prospective one-group pre-test, post-test evaluation was designed to assess a clin...

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Autores principales: Waite, Iain, Deshpande, Ranjit, Baghai, Max, Massey, Tania, Wendler, Olaf, Greenwood, Sharlene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5658994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29073924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0655-8