Table 1 Feasibility outcomes

Process feasibility

 Eligibility

Adequate eligibility criteria

N of inadequate inclusions

0 events

 Adherence

  To all parts^a of the intervention

N of patients who attended

Study protocols

Exercise protocols

 ≥ 50%

For patients remaining in the study

 Adherence

  To the exercise programme

N of exercise sessions attended out of those planned

Exercise protocols

 ≥ 50%

  To begin the exercise programme

N of patients that started exercise the latest within the third week, after hospital discharge

Medical records

Exercise protocols

 ≥ 50%

 Acceptability

  Exercise period

N that withdrew or dropped out after starting the exercise period

Exercise protocols Medical records

 < 50%

  Physical tests

  Questionnaires

N of tests/questionnaires performed out of those planned

Study protocols

 ≥ 80% of each test/questionnaire

  Activity monitoring

N of patients that used the activity monitor and N of valid days

Activity monitor logs

 ≥ 50% of patients use

 ≥ 4/7 valid days

Scientific feasibility

 Ability to indicate a change

  Physical tests

  Questionnaires

  Activity monitoring

Measurements must vary between test occasions, for each patient

Study protocols

Activity monitor logs

 > 0% variation

 Safety

  Exercise programme

  Physical tests

N of adverse events

Exercise protocols

Study protocols

0 events

 Possibility of progression in the exercise programme

N of patients who proceeded from block one to block two

Exercise protocols

 ≥ 80%