title: Outcome assessment in cardiac rehabilitation.
abstract: Cardiac rehabilitation outcome assessment has reflected the isolated concerns of different professionals, each addressing different factors of the problems of patients. Physical, medical, psychosocial, and epidemiological approaches have been taken. Discrepancies in findings may relate more to problems with assessment than to the technology itself, and can undermine the usefulness of the intervention.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Michel
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods*