Table 4.

Summary of economic evaluations comparing supervised centre-based inpatient cardiac rehabilitation (ICR) vs supervised centre-based outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR)

Author (Year)	Perspective	Patient populations	Study type	Currency, price year	Findings
Schweikert et al. (2009)	Societal	N = 147 MI	CEA/CUA	Euro, 2006	ICER = −165,276€ per QALY in favour of CR, although no significant

MI, myocardial infarction. CEA, cost-effectiveness analysis. CUA, cost-utility analysis. QALY, quality-adjusted life-years. ICER, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.