TABLE 4.

Cardiac rehabilitation wait times at cardiac centres across Canada, May 2005

		Length of time (days)
Program	Program type	Receipt of referral to first contact	First contact to first attendance	First contact to stress test	Stress test to commencement of exercise program	First contact to exercise program	First attendance to other services (eg, dietician)
A	Onsite	<5	57	67	38	105	106
	Home program	<5	66	83	14–21	97–104	115
B		5 to contact patient	1–25	36	7	43	<7
C		21 (surgical) 7 (nonsurgical)	28 (surgical) 7 (nonsurgical)	14	28	42	One-on-one: 42 Group: 14
D		3	28	35–42	2	37–44	7
E		1	<28	<28	<7	<35	14–21
F		<2	Variable	28 (PCI) 56 (MI or CABG)	2–21		14–21
G		7	21–28	Variable	0 (start after first contact)	28–35	28–42
H		7–14	7–14	14–21	1–2	15–22	<30
I	Prerehabilitation	<2	<5	–	–	<5	<14
	Regular	5	<14	7–14	<7	14–21	7–14
J	Onsite	14–28	91	28–91	<7	35–98	<7
	Home program	14–28	14–28	28	<7	<35	<7
K		14–21	14–21	Variable	<7	21–28	14
L		150	7–14	7–14	0 (start after first contact)	7–14	<5
M		7–14	7–14	–	–	7–14	28–56
N		Variable	7	7	1	8	<7
Average		17.5	26.3	34	9.4	37.1	36.1

Access to Care Working Group survey of 14 centres across Canada, May 2005 (personal communication). CABG Coronary artery bypass graft surgery; MI Myocardial infarction; PCI Percutaneous coronary intervention