643 Identifying Physician Barriers to Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral in a Tertiary Care Centre

Facilitating or getting in the way? The effect of clinicians' knowledge, values and beliefs on referral and participation

“…19 Cardiology residents, fellows and cardiologists also had better knowledge scores about CR programs and eligibility criteria and were more familiar with CR referral guidelines. 28 Similarly, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and cardiac interns exhibit high levels of knowledge of the benefits of CR, 23 but there referral rates were still moderate at 65.932.0% of eligible patients (Table 1). Clearly other factors may be influential.…”