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Six-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial examining hospital versus home-based exercise training after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
KM Smith, RS Mc Kelvie, KE Thorpe... - Heart, 2011 - Objective To compare the long-term effectiveness of hospital versus telephone-monitored home-based exercise training during cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on exercise capacity and habitual physical activity. Design Six-year follow-up of patients who participated in a ...
Funding This research was supported in part by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (grant # T4004). KMS was funded by a Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Margaret Mc Williams Fellow of the Canadian Federation of University Women and a doctoral research award from the Canadian Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation. HMA holds the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G De Groote Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Nursing Research. The study investigators were independent of the sponsors. The sponsors played no role in the design, analysis/interpretation or dissemination of the study findings.
Competing interests KMS, RSM, KET and HMA have no relationships that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years. KMS was the first author of the previous 1-year follow-up of home versus hospital-based exercise training during CR after CABG; she was also a co-author of the original RCT. HMA was the first author of the original RCT of home versus hospital-based exercise training during CR after CABG and a co-author of the 1-year follow-up study. RSM was a co-author on both the RCT and 1-year follow-up studies related to the present work.
Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the Joint Research Ethics Board of Mc Master University and the Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the joint institutional review board of Mc Master University and the HHS (Protocol #05-034).
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