Table 3. Summary of costs in home- and centre-based settings.

Trial First author (year)	Currency Year of costs Follow up	Cardiac rehabilitation programme cost (per patient)	Programme costs considered	Total healthcare cost (per patient)	Additional healthcare costs considered	Comments
Carlson 2000	US $ Not reported 6-months	Home: Mean 1, 519 Centre: Mean 2, 349	Staff & ECG monitoring	Not reported
Marchionni 2003	US $ 2000 14-months	Home: Mean 1, 650 Centre: Mean 8, 841	Not reported	Home: 21,298 Centre: 13,246	Not reported
Dalal 2007	UK £ 2002-3 9-months	Home: Mean 170 (SD 8) Centre: Mean 200 (SD 3) Difference: Mean 30 95% CI: −45 to −12 P<0.0001	Staff exercise equipment staff travel	Home: Mean 3, 279 (374) Centre: Mean 3, 201 (443) Difference: Mean 78 95% CI: −1,103 to 1,191 P=0.894	Rehospitalisations, revascularisations, secondary preventive medication, investigations, primary care consultations
Jolly 2007	UK £ 2003 24-months	Home: Mean 198 95% CI: 189 to 209 Centre: Mean 157 95% CI: 139 to 175 P<0.05	Staff telephone consultations staff travel	Not reported		With inclusion of patient costs (travel and time) , the societal costs of home and centre CR were not significantly different