title: Attitudes and advice after myocardial infarction.
abstract: While medical opinion increasingly favours an active approach to rehabilitation after myocardial infarction, interviews with 40 patients and their relatives showed a low degree of understanding of medical advice and information. There was general satisfaction with treatment, but communication was seen as often being inadequate, vague, and conflicting.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations