Creating and disseminating a home-based cardiac rehabilitation program: experience from the Veterans Health Administration

Table 1 Participating Sites

Site ID	Overall Enrollment at site¹	Qualifying Events²	Center Based (N)	% attend Center Based	VHA home-based with Qualifying Event (N)	% attend Home Based	Home Based, no documented Qualifying Event (N)
Low Adopter
5	27,638	6	0	0.0%	0	0%	0
13	76,697	338	20	5.9%	0	0%	0
10	56,001	2	0	0.0%	0	0%	0
6^3,5	85,253	215	11	5.1%	16	7%	28
8*	45,746	8	0	0.0%	0	0%	1
Medium Adopter
11	62,210	211	21	10.0%	0	0%	26
18	84,196	128	14	10.9%	4	3%	13
1^4,5	32,309	1	0	0.0%	0	0%	46
17*	116,980	143	0	0.0%	0	0%	30
High Adopter
12⁵	46,163	257	5	1.9%	14	5%	54
16⁵	104,180	438	1	0.2%	19	4%	44
3	25,219	50	0	0.0%	5	10%	39
2⁵	73,404	178	2	1.1%	12	7%	60
9⁵	55,281	325	40	12.3%	94	29%	158
7⁵	169,809	485	1	0.2%	60	12%	228
4	62,463	393	148	37.7%	34	9%	47

¹refers to the number of Veterans who have enrolled for care at each site
²# with myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft; patients may have had care at more than one VA, so numbers are unique to each VA only; patients could also have had events/CR across multiple fiscal years and are counted only once per fiscal year; a qualifying event occurred no more than 3 months prior to the site’s start date; some patients had more than one qualifying event; CR must occur within 365 days after a qualifying event
³site 6 – site dropped out of program
⁴site 1 – outpatient only setting
⁵Interview sites

ISSN: 1471-2261