TY - JOUR T1 - Cardiac rehabilitation mortality trends: how far from a true picture are we? JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 968 LP - 968 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-303724 VL - 99 IS - 13 AU - Alison Beauchamp AU - Marian Worcester AU - Barbara Murphy AU - James Tatoulis AU - Andrew Ng Y1 - 2013/07/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/99/13/968.1.abstract N2 - To the Editor, Thank you for the opportunity to respond to this editorial,1 which questions our findings of a greater mortality risk of 58% for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) non-attenders compared to attenders.1 ,2 While this effect size is larger than some reports, benefits of this magnitude have been seen by other studies with patient samples comparable to ours. These recent studies found similar effect sizes of 45–59%.3–5The authors also comment that ‘it may be that Melbourne CR programmes are really that good’.1 A 1996 survey of Victorian CR programmes conducted by the … ER -