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Table 1 PICOS search strategy

From: A systematic review of provider-and system-level factors influencing the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure

PICOS

Definition

Population

Services and professionals working with patients with heart failure

Intervention

‘A coordinated and structured programme designed to remove or reduce the underlying causes of cardiovascular disease’ to ‘include a range of interventions with health education, lifestyle advice, stress management and physical exercise components’ [27,28,29,30].

Comparison

None

Outcome

Barriers and enablers

Study type

Any empirical