The 6-minute walk test in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation: validity, reliability and responsiveness--a systematic review.

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  2012

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  Physiotherapy

• Publication date

  2012-12-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.physio.2011.11.003PMID 23122432
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