INCREASING CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAM REFERRALS: A CLINIC-BASED INTERVENTION

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Intervention Package for Increasing Appropriate Outpatient Antibiotic Usage: A Clinic-Feedback Based Approach

Smartphone-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program: Feasibility Study

We introduce a cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) that utilizes only a smartphone, with no external devices. As an efficient guide for cardiac rehabilitation exercise, we developed an application to automatically indicate the exercise intensity by comparing the estimated heart rate (HR) with the target heart rate zone (THZ). The HR is estimated using video images of a fingertip taken by the s...

Developing a culturally based cardiac rehabilitation program: the HELA study.

BACKGROUND Heart disease disproportionately affects Native Hawaiians and other Pacific people. In response, researchers proposed and communities endorsed, developing a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program based on the hula, a Native Hawaiian dance form. The utilization of cultural practices in health interventions can improve outcomes and increase enrollment and retention, but requires sensitivi...

Self-referrals to a community psychiatric clinic

munity based psychiatric services. There is no single view of CMHCs in the United Kingdom and, while many such centres already exist, they are diverse in nature and their activities have been sparsely documented. An issue often raised by proponents of these ser vices is whether to allow potential patients to by-pass the normal referral channels and present themselves directly to the service. Th...

Feasibility of an exercise intervention for fatigued breast cancer patients at a community-based cardiac rehabilitation program

PURPOSE Exercise is beneficial to quality of life after cancer treatment, yet few cancer survivors meet exercise guidelines. Our study sought to determine the feasibility of an oncology rehabilitation exercise program embedded within a cardiac rehabilitation program. METHODS Patients who rated their fatigue >4/10 after completion of adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer were screened for el...