Maarten van Egmond

90 Chapter 5 Table 1. Summary of study characteristics Study Design Objective Participants Intervention N (male/ female) Characteristics I: n [age (SD)] C: n [age (SD)] Treatment CARDIAC SURGERY Arthur 2002 RCT Effectiveness of a monitored, home-based programme 242 (197/45) Patients after CABG surgery I: 120 [64.2 (9.4)] C: 122 [62.5 (8.8)] Home: exercise consultations and exercise training Barnason 2006 Pilot RCT Effectiveness of a home commu- nication inter- vention 50 (28/22) Patients after CABG surgery Not specified Home health care plus communication intervention Hartford 2002 RCT Effectiveness of a telephone based interven- tion 131 (113/ 18) Patients after CABG surgery and their part- ners I: 63 [62.7 ( 9.1)] C: 68 [63.0 (8.2)] Information and support by telephone Kortke 2006 Quasi-ex- perimental design with comparative controls Evaluation of a telemedically monitored inter- vention 170 (157/13) Patients after cardiac surgery I: 100 [57.6 (8.4)] C: 70 [55.2 (1.2)] An ambulatory rehabilitation with telemedi- cal monitoring Lee 2013 RCT Effectiveness of home-based exercise with wireless moni- toring 55 (44/11) Patients with a diagnosis of ACS and having undergone PCI I: 26 [54.3 (8.9)] C: 29 [57.8 (7.5)] Wireless mon- itored home based exercise training