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Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs reduce the risk of further cardiac events and improve the ability of people living with cardiovascular disease to manage their symptoms. However, many people who experience a cardiac event do not attend or fail to complete their CR program. Little is known about the characteristics of people who drop out compared to those who complete CR.

To identify subgroups of patients attending a cardiac rehabilitation program who are more likely to dropout prior to final assessment by (1) calculating the dropout rate from the program, (2) quantifying the association between dropout and socio-demographic, lifestyle, and cardiovascular risk factors, and (3) identifying independent predictors of dropout.

The study population is from a large metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, and consists of all participants consecutively enrolled in an outpatient CR …