Cardiac rehabilitation is defined as a multidisciplinary program that includes exercise
training, cardiac risk factor modification, psychosocial assessment, and outcomes …

Objective To determine how well exercise interventions are reported in trials in health and
disease. Design Overview of systematic reviews. Data sources PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL …

Exercise is effective for prevention and management of acute and chronic health conditions.
However, trial descriptions of exercise interventions are often suboptimal, leaving readers …

Background: Recommendations for physical activity in patients with stable coronary heart
disease (CHD) are based on modest evidence. Objectives: The authors analyzed the …

The importance of adequate intervention descriptions in minimising research waste and
improving research usability and reproducibility has gained attention in the past few years …

Mortality benefits from exercise are similar to pharmacologic interventions for secondary
prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke rehabilitation, treatment for heart failure and …

Abstract Background The Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR)
checklist and guide was developed by an international team of experts to promote full and …

Background While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well
established, there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials. It is …

Despite its importance, underreporting of the active content of experimental and comparator
interventions in published literature has not been previously examined for behavioural trials …

Psychosocial management is a core component of outpatient Phase-II cardiac rehabilitation
(CR) and includes psychosocial assessment, providing interventions, measuring outcomes …