| Study | Reason for exclusion |
|---|---|
| Ahlmark 1979 | No intervention |
| Al'khimovich 1990 | No RTW |
| Ali 2018 | Not a RCT (cohort) |
| Aronov 1991 | No RTW |
| Aronov 2006 | No RTW |
| Bar 1992 | Participants (not stated how many working prior to MI). By 20 May 2016 no answer to mail. Only 1 centre randomised patients |
| Ben‐Ari 1986 | Not a RCT |
| Bjarnason‐Wehrens 1999 | No control group |
| Boszormenyi 1984 | Control group did not receive standard care |
| Boulay 1983 | Not a RCT |
| Bounhoure 2014 | Not a RCT |
| Buchwalsky 2002 | Not a RCT |
| Burns 2007 | No control group |
| Carlsson 1998 | No RTW |
| Cay 1981 | Participants ‐ only approximately 50% were working prior to MI, no subgroup analysis |
| Christensen 2017 | Participants included received implantable cardioverter defibrillator and unclear if > 80% had the indications of MI, CABG or PCI |
| Danchin 1988 | Not a RCT |
| David 2011 | No RTW |
| Davies 1991 | Not a RCT |
| Dimopoulos 1999 | Not a RCT |
| Dominiak 2011 | No RTW |
| Dorn 1999 | No RTW |
| Dorn 2001 | No RTW |
| Dumont 1999 | Not a RCT |
| Espinosa 2004 | Not a RCT |
| Fattirolli 1998 | Not RCT (protocol only) |
| Ferrario 2010 | Not a RCT |
| Follick 1988 | No intervention |
| Foster 1984 | No RTW |
| Fujita 1983 | No control group |
| Gallagher 2003 | No RTW |
| Garrity 1973 | Not a RCT |
| Giannuzzi 1992 | No RTW |
| Giannuzzi 1993 | No RTW |
| Giannuzzi 1997 | No RTW |
| Goeminne 1989 | Not a RCT |
| Grief 1995 | No RTW |
| Griffo 1983 | Not a RCT |
| Groden 1967 | No control group |
| Gutschker 1977 | Only an abstract available; not enough information to include: participants only % RTW reported no number of workers; possibly same study as Geissler 1979 |
| Gysan 1999 | No control group |
| Gysan 2004 | No RTW |
| Hakkila 1965 | Not a RCT |
| Hare 1983 | Only abstract available; not enough information provided to include ‐ no RTW results |
| Haussler 1997 | Not a RCT |
| Havelkova 2010 | No RTW |
| Hedback 1993 | Not a RCT; same study as Hedback 1987 (excluded; see Hedback 1993, secondary reference) |
| Heller 1990 | No RTW |
| Heller 1993 | Main intervention focused on providing information on healthy nutrition (dietary intervention), and primary physicians were provided information on the benefits of prescribing beta‐blockers (pharmaceutical co‐intervention) |
| Henritze 1989 | Not a RCT |
| Hertzeanu 1993 | No RTW |
| Huber 2014 | Participants: < 70% of patients included were diagnosed with an ischaemic heart disease (ICD‐10 I20‐I25) |
| Hui 2006 | No RTW |
| Iacovino 1997 | No usual care control group |
| Isaaz 2010 | No intervention |
| Jette 1991 | No RTW |
| Johnson 2014 | Not a RCT |
| Kadda 2015 | No RTW, self‐efficacy scores for total population (including participants not employed at baseline) |
| Kagan‐Ponomarev 1994 | Intervention does not fulfil inclusion criteria: early discharge vs normal rehabilitation |
| Kallio 1979 | No RTW |
| Kamath 2012 | No RTW |
| Karoff 2000b | Not a RCT, same study as Karoff 1997 Karoff 1999, Karoff 2000 (see Karoff 2000b, secondary references) |
| Kelbaek 1981 | No RTW |
| Kellermann 1968 | No control group |
| Kellermann 1975 | Not a RCT |
| Kittel 2008 | Study participants were on sick‐leave for > 3 months prior to rehabilitation and were selected because the patient or attending physician anticipated work reintegration would be difficult; 21.5% control group unemployed |
| Kokutsov 1990 | Not a RCT |
| Korzeniowska‐Kubacka 2004 | Not a RCT |
| Korzeniowska‐Kubacka 2015 | Not a RCT |
| Kovoor 2006 | No RTW |
| Krasemann 1979 | Not a RCT |
| Kushnir 1976 | Not a RCT |
| Laaksovirta 1985 | No intervention |
| Lamberti 2016 | Not a RCT |
| Lamm 1982 | Not a RCT |
| Langosch 1982 | No control group (in the follow‐up) |
| Lautamaki 2017 | CABG group compared with PCI, not a control group receiving usual care |
| Lear 2002 | No RTW |
| Li 2004 | No RTW |
| Liang 1988 | No control group |
| Lie 2009 | No RTW |
| Lisspers 1999 | No intervention |
| Liu 1997 | No RTW |
| Maeland 1987 | No RTW |
| Maeland 1989 | No control group |
| Marchionni 1994 | No RTW |
| Maroto 1996 | No RTW |
| Mayou 1981 | Not a RCT |
| Miller 1988 | No RTW comparison |
| Mirmohammadi 2014 | Not a RCT |
| Mital 1999 | No RTW (see Mital 1999 secondary reference) |
| Mital 2000 | Not a RCT |
| Mulcahy 1971 | No control group |
| Nelson 1994 | Participants (< 80% working prior to MI and no RTW subgroup analysis) |
| Ng 2000 | No RTW |
| Nikolaeva 1986 | Not a RCT |
| Nikrahan 2016 | No RTW |
| Ohm 1987 | Not RCT (CBA) |
| Palatsi 1976 | Not a RCT |
| Pegus 2002 | No RTW |
| Petrie 1996 | No control group; all participants were offered rehabilitation programme |
| Pierson 2001 | No RTW |
| Pitscheider 1995 | No control group |
| Price 2005 | Not a RCT |
| Rakowska 2015 | No RTW |
| Rauscha 1988 | No intervention |
| Redfern 2007 | No RTW |
| Reid 2012 | No RTW |
| Roviaro 1984 | No RTW |
| Rudnicki 1977 | No RTW |
| Rugulies 2003 | No RTW |
| Salonen 1980 | No control group |
| Salvetti 2008 | No RTW |
| Saner 1999 | No control group |
| Sanne 1973 | Difference in RTW between treatment groups not reported (only total RTW in the entire population) |
| Schaller 1977 | No RTW comparison |
| Schiller 1976 | Unclear how many participants were working; intervention unclear; not RCT |
| Schlierf 1995 | No RTW |
| Schuster 1995 | Not a RCT |
| Schwartze 1991 | Not an RCT, no control group |
| Shapiro 1972 | No control group |
| Shrey 2000 | Review |
| Sieber 1986 | Not a RCT |
| Siggeirsdottir 2016 | Not a RCT |
| Simchen 2001 | Not a RCT |
| Sledzevskaia 1994 | No RTW |
| Smirnov 1989 | No RTW |
| Speiser 1982 | No intervention |
| Steinacker 2011 | No RTW |
| Stepanova 1975 | No RTW |
| Sturchio 2012 | No RTW |
| Sundin 1994 | No RTW |
| Szalewska 2015a | Not a RCT |
| Szalewska 2015b | Not a RCT |
| Tarasov 1998 | No RTW |
| Toms 2003 | Self‐selection into intervention group |
| Tooth 1998 | No RTW |
| Van der Peijl 2004 | No RTW |
| Van Dixhoorn 1989 | No RTW, no control group |
| Varvaro 2000 | No RTW |
| Velasco 1982 | No true control group without intervention |
| Vibulchai 2016 | No RTW |
| Wallach 1969 | No intervention |
| Wieslander 2005 | No control group |
| Yonezawa 2009 | Participants already returned to work at start of trial |
| Yoshida 1999 | No RTW |
| Yu 2003 | No RTW |
CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; CBA: controlled before‐after study; MI: myocardial infarction; PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention; RTC: randomised controlled trial; RTW: return to work