The committee also noted that the admission costs were higher in the home-based rehabilitation group in this study. However, the committee considered this to be highly uncertain due to the small sample size of the study, and therefore did not put much weight on this finding. Although there was no clinical evidence for hospitalisations, the committee considered that home-based rehabilitation would have similar hospitalisation rates as hospital-based rehabilitation, and therefore admission costs would not differ greatly between the 2 interventions. The committee were concerned with the small sample size of this study (n=30), that there was a large age difference of patients in each arm, and that no health outcomes were reported, and therefore this study was assessed as partially applicable with very serious limitations. Due to the limited quality of economic evidence, the committee considered the current cost of hospital-based rehabilitation. According to NHS reference costs the cost of Rehabilitation for Acute Myocardial Infarction or Other Cardiac Disorders (VC38Z) is 238. The committee also mentioned that these patients are likely to require transport, further increasing the cost of this intervention. The other interventions for home-based rehabilitation programmes identified in the clinical review consisted of outdoor walking and weekly telephone calls to healthcare staff. The committee considered that this would require limited NHS resource if such Chronic Heart Failure Rehabilitation in chronic heart failure NICE 2018. All rights reserved. Subject to Notice of rights. ISBN: 978-1-4731-3093-7 programmes were implemented. Overall, the committee did not consider that home-based rehabilitation would be more costly than hospital/community rehabilitation as health professionals are not required to visit patients in their homes, and in some instances could be less costly. 