Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for adults after heart valve surgery

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows:

To assess the benefits and harms of exercise-based intervention programmes (exercise-based interventions alone or in combination with psycho-educational components), compared to no intervention, or treatment as usual, in adults who have had heart valve surgery. In this review we will focus on programmes that include an exercise-based intervention with, or without, another rehabilitation component (such as a psycho-educational component).