Table 1

Referral, uptake and completion rates for UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes in the year 2000

	Median	IQR	Range	*Number of programmes	% of referrals
*Data were not provided for all questions by all services so the numbers of respondents to each question are provided of a possible maximum of 191.
IQR, interquartile range.
All patients
Referred	271	164–424	2–1564	156
Joined	172	101–254	2–1066	153	63
Completed	130	75–186	3–450	133	48
MI patients
Referred	160	78–286	0–881	97
Joined	91	49–149	0–446	88	57
Completed	66	31–103	0–425	69	41
Revascularisation patients
Referred	86	47–142	0–563	91
Joined	50	22–99	0–407	83	58
Completed	45	13–82	0–367	65	52
Male patients
Referred	213	111–334	2–1066	83
Joined	118	66–185	2–747	84	55
Completed	84	43–154	2–329	65	39
Female patients
Referred	85	36–130	1–498	83
Joined	36	17–60	1–319	84	42
Completed	27	12–45	0–140	65	32
Patients over 65 years old
Referred	142	61–228	0–887	66
Joined	72	37–152	0–596	71	51
Completed	54	30–110	4–212	51	38
Black/Asian patients
Referred	5	1–19	0–196	59
Joined	2	0–7	0–127	63
Completed
Heart failure patients
Referred	0	0–2	0–28	61
Joined	0	0–1	0–12	59
Completed	0	0–1	0–9	46
Angina patients
Referred	6	0–27	0–200	71
Joined	1	0–8	0–134	70
Completed	0	0–5	0–73	51