Table 5 Characteristics of interventions studied
Type of intervention (number of evidence summaries) | Context: Who delivered | Context: Where delivered | Context: How delivered | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Pt | Fam | Clin | Ad | PH | O | Home | Comm | ClE | O | Per | Paper | Phone | TI | TS | NS |
Consumer interventions | ||||||||||||||||
Patient education/patient information (n = 8) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Decision aids/shared decision making (n = 5) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
Interactive health communication applications (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Contracts (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reminder packaging (n = 1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Multifaceted (n = 1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Overall | 2 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
Professional interventions | ||||||||||||||||
Educational outreach visits & audit and feedback (n = 4) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
IT/IM/informatic interventions (n = 5) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Local opinion leaders (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tailored interventions (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Clinical pathway interventions (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Guidelines for professions allied to medicine (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Discharge planning from hospital to home (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Overall | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Organizational interventions | ||||||||||||||||
Changing length of consultation (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Routine standardized assessment (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chronic care model interventions (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Models-of-care/integrated care-related interventions (n = 5) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Shared-care tactic interventions (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Health information technology (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Overall | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 |