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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for BRUM study

From: Home-based versus hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction or revascularisation: design and rationale of the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation Study (BRUM): a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN72884263]

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria (applied by a cardiologist)

Diagnosis within previous 3 months of a first or subsequent myocardial infarction (MI)

Case-note reported dementia

Diagnosis within previous 3 months of a first or subsequent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)

Unstable angina

Diagnosis within previous 3 months of a first or subsequent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)

Cardiac arrhythmias

English or Punjabi speakers

Severe heart failure

 

Sight defects of sufficient severity to prevent the reading of the Heart Manual

 

Severe hearing impairment