Cardiac rehabilitation in the UK: uptake among under-represented groups

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The British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation (BACR) has conducted several surveys of cardiac rehabilitation services in the UK.4, 5 Respondents from the survey in 2001 (data from 1 January to 31 December 2000) were sent an additional short questionnaire to determine the numbers of patients from under-represented groups (elderly people, women, people from black and Asian groups, and people with heart failure or angina) referred, joining, and completing cardiac rehabilitation programmes during the same time period. We also sought to determine how many services actively promoted uptake and adherence to programmes in these under-represented groups, and any details of interventions used to achieve this. Themes arising from these free text responses were categorised into generic or specific interventions for each under-represented group by one of the authors who has extensive experience of cardiac rehabilitation service provision. Data for the respondents of the additional short survey were entered into an Access database and transferred to Stata (version 7) for data cleaning and analysis. Results are presented as proportions, medians, and interquartile range (IQR).

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