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Today rehabilitation after myocardial-infarction is a routine measure in most countries, yet its effectiveness is still under discussion. Rehabilitation aims at ameliorating the quality of life and at preventing a cardiovascular reevent, in other words at prolonging life. The latter "hard" endpoints is best amenable to quantification. Only recent meta-analyses of pooled data were able to show that rehabilitation in fact does prolong life. The relative importance of physical exercise in mostly complex rehabilitation programs is even less clear. This analyses implies a benefit, yet the exact proof is still missing. If rehabilitation could be shown to improve quality of life, its application would, of course, be justified even if it did fail to prolong life. Important open questions relate to the optimizing of rehabilitation: duration, frequency, intensity as well as age and sex of responders. Answering these will be a challenge for tomorrow's rehabilitation medicine.
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
January 1972,
Bulletin des infirmieres catholiques du Canada,
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
July 1973,
Bratislavske lekarske listy,
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
August 1973,
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946),
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
April 1972,
Revue de l'infirmiere,
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
March 1974,
Schweizerische Rundschau fur Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de medecine Praxis,
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
December 1984,
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946),
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
December 1971,
Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen,
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
November 1971,
Polski tygodnik lekarski (Warsaw, Poland : 1960),
E Ernst, and
M Quittan
July 1970,
Meditsinskaia sestra,
