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Goal Setting In Cardiac Rehabilitation: Implications For Clinical Practice, Ritin Fernandez, Rohan Rajaratnam, Kasey Evans, Anau Speizer
Goal Setting In Cardiac Rehabilitation: Implications For Clinical Practice, Ritin Fernandez, Rohan Rajaratnam, Kasey Evans, Anau Speizer
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Background: Effective goal setting is a vital component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. Objective: The objectives of this study were to investigate the types of goals set by patients attending a CR program in a tertiary teaching hospital and the compatibility of the goals set with the patient's risk factor profile. Methods: A descriptive, cross sectional, retrospective audit of the medical records of patients who attended the CR program in a tertiary teaching hospital in Sydney NSW between January 2007 and December 2009 was undertaken. The medical records of 355 patients who attended CR within the stipulated time frame were …