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Table 3 Summary of economic evaluations comparing supervised centre-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) vs home-based cardiac rehabilitation (HCR)*

From: A systematic review of economic evaluations of cardiac rehabilitation

Author (Year)

Perspective

Patient populations

Study type

Currency, price year

Findings

Reid et al. (2005)

Health system

N = 392 CAD

CCA

US dollars, 2004

HCR: $5,267 per patient

     

CR: $5,132 per patient; no difference

Taylor et al. (2007)

Societal

N = 80 MI

CUA

Sterling pounds, 2002-3

ICUR = −£644 per QALY in favour of CR but not significantly different

Papadakis et al. (2008)

Health system

N = 392 CAD

CUA

US dollars, 2004

ICUR = $11,400 per QALY in favour of CR

  1. MI, myocardial infarction. CAD, coronary artery disease. CCA, cost-consequences analysis. CUA, cost-utility analysis. QALY, quality-adjusted life-years. ICUR, incremental cost-utility ratio. * cost-minimization analyses were not included in this table (refer to Additional file 2: Appendix 2 for details).