Exploration of cardiac rehabilitation nursing for elderly patients with myocardial infarction based on individualized cardiac rehabilitation
Hua-Ning Liu, Department of Geriatrics, General Hospital of the YangTze River Shipping, Wuhan Brain Hospital, Wuhan 430015, Hubei Province, China
Bo Gao, Department of Cardiology, Suizhou Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, Suizhou 441300, Hubei Province, China
Co-first authors: Hua-Ning Liu and Bo Gao.
Author contributions: Liu HN and Gao B designed the research, contributed new reagents/analytic tools, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper; and all authors were involved in the critical review of the results and have contributed to, read, and approved the final manuscript. Liu HN and Gao B contributed equally to this work as co-first authors equally to this work. The reasons for designating Liu HN and Gao B as co-first authors are threefold. First, the research was performed as a collaborative effort, and the designation of co-first authors authorship accurately reflects the distribution of responsibilities and burdens associated with the time and effort required to complete the study and the resultant paper. This also ensures effective communication and management of post-submission matters, ultimately enhancing the paper’s quality and reliability. Second, the overall research team encompassed authors with a variety of expertise and skills from different fields, and the designation of co-first authors reflects this diversity well. This also promotes the most comprehensive and in-depth examination of the research topic, ultimately enriching readers’ understanding by offering various expert perspectives. Third, Liu HN and Gao B contributed efforts of equal substance throughout the research process. The choice of these researchers as co-first authors acknowledges and respects this equal contribution, while recognizing the spirit of teamwork and collaboration of this study. In summary, we believe that designating Liu HN and Gao B as co-first authors are fitting for our manuscript as it accurately reflects our team’s collaborative spirit, equal contributions, and diversity.
Institutional review board statement: This study protocol was approved by the Suizhou Central Hospital.
Informed consent statement: All the families have voluntarily participated in the study and have signed informed consent forms.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Data generated from this investigation are available upon reasonable quest from the corresponding author.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Hua-Ning Liu, Department of Geriatrics, General Hospital of the YangTze River Shipping, Wuhan Brain Hospital, No. 5 Huiji Road, Jiangan District, Wuhan 430015, Hubei Province, China. bigliu007@hotmail.com
Received: November 7, 2023
Peer-review started: November 7, 2023
First decision: November 16, 2023
Revised: November 24, 2023
Accepted: December 25, 2023
Article in press: December 25, 2023
Published online: January 16, 2024
