Trial name or title	Akershus Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Trial (the CORE Study)
Methods	Randomized, controlled, parallel-group design, single centre trial, driven by the Medical Department of the Akershus Central Hospital in Oslo, Norway
Participants	500 patients, men and women, aged 40-85 years, who have sustained at least one of the following: myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting
Interventions	Intervention: 8 weeks of supervised, structured physical training of three periods of 20 min per week, targeting a heart rate of 60-70% of the individual’s maximum; home-based physical exercise training with the same basic schedule as in the supervised period; quantification of patients’ compliance with the exercise programme by the use of wristwatches, information stored in the watch memory being retrieved once a month during the 3-year follow-up period; and life-style modification with an emphasis on the cessation of smoking and on healthy nutrition and weight control Control: Conventional care.
Outcomes	Primary: Quality of life. Secondary: total mortality, cardiovascular mortality, morbidity and recurrence rates of coronary events throughout a 3-year follow-up period
Starting date	Originally states as April 2000 with follow up complete by April 2004. No sign of publication to date. Contacted author with no reply
Contact information	drcornelpater@aol.com
Notes	Study design described at http://cvm.controlled-trials.com/content/1/3/177