Table
of Contents
Appendix A
Search strategy
| #Search History |
Results |
| 1 discharge planning.mp. or exp Patient Discharge/ |
32632 |
2 case management.mp. or exp Patient Care Planning/
or exp Case
Management/ |
92238 |
| 3 patient readmission.mp. |
9266 |
| 4 Aftercare/ |
12568 |
| 5 Continuity of Patient Care/ |
20217 |
| 6 Patient Transfer/ |
8094 |
| 7 Post discharg$.tw. |
2180 |
| 8 Postdischarg$.tw. |
2738 |
| 9 Post hospital$.tw. |
1061 |
| 10 Posthospital$.tw. |
1047 |
| 11Predischarg$.tw. |
1810 |
| 12 Pre discharg$.tw. |
496 |
| 13 Patient$ discharg$.tw. |
7039 |
| 14Discharg$.ti. |
24270 |
15 ((readmission$ or early or premature or
care or medication or
destination or decision or decid$ or support$ or prepar$
or process$
or plan$ or system$) adj6 discharg$).tw. |
25564 |
| 16 or/1-15 |
194133 |
17 exp Heart Failure, Congestive/ or exp Cardiac
Output, Low/ or
Heart failure.mp. |
167913 |
| 18 16 and 17 |
3660 |
| 19 limit 18 to english language |
3394 |
| 20 limit 19 to “all adult (19 plus years)” |
2544 |
| 21 randomized controlled trial.pt. |
688706 |
| 22 controlled clinical trial.pt. |
221479 |
| 23 Randomized controlled trials/ |
125964 |
| 24 random allocation/ |
112192 |
| 25 double-blind method/ |
252902 |
| 26 single-blind method/ |
27409 |
| 27 clinical trial.pt. |
157319 |
| 28 (random$ or rct).tw. |
900347 |
| 29 controlled clinical trials/ |
39157 |
| 30 (clin$ adj trial$).tw. |
222839 |
31 ((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or Tripl$)
adj (blind$ or
mask$)).tw. |
275580 |
| 32 exp PLACEBOS/ |
70143 |
| 33 placebo$.tw. |
288743 |
| 34 cross-over studies/ |
53318 |
| 35 evaluation studies/ |
214252 |
| 36 or/21-35 |
2048057 |
| 37 20 and 36 |
684 |
| 38 animal/ not (animal/ and human/) |
3078777 |
| 39 37 not 38 |
684 |
| 40 limit 39 to comment and (letter or editorial).pt. |
1 |
41 limit 39 to (addresses or bibliography or
biography or case
reports or congresses or consensus development conference
or
consensus development conference, nih or dictionary or directory
or
editorial or festschrift or government publications or interview
or
lectures or legal cases or legislation or news or newspaper
article
or patient education handout or periodical index) |
9 |
| 42 39 not (40 or 41) |
674 |
43 limit 42 to (guideline or meta analysis
or practice guideline or
“review”) |
30 |
| 44 42 not |
43644 |
| 45 limit 44 to yr=1990-2007 |
615 |
| 46 remove duplicates from 45 |
273 |
| Study Year |
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| UI number |
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Methods
Study design description |
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| Randomization
method |
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| Allocation
concealment |
|
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| Blinding |
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| Number
of centers |
|
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| Recruitment
years |
|
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| Duration
of followup |
|
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Participants
Country |
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| Study
inclusion criteria |
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| Study
exclusion criteria |
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| |
Overall |
Intervention |
Controls |
| N
randomized |
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| Mean
age (SD) y |
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| Males
% |
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| Race
/ Ethnicity % |
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| Severity
of heart failure (at index admission) |
|
NYHA:
LVEF%: |
NYHA:
LVEF%: |
| Severity
of heart failure (at baseline) |
|
NYHA:
LVEF%: |
NYHA:
LVEF%: |
| Duration
of CHF |
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| History
- Myocardial infarction |
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| History
of other CVD disease |
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| ACE
inhibitor use |
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| B-blockers |
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| Diuretics |
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| Other
medications |
|
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| Interventions |
|
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| Duration
of intervention |
|
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| Intervention
group name |
|
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Description
of intervention
During index hospitalization |
|
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| After
discharge |
|
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| Description of comparator |
|
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| Followup times |
|
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| Statistical Analyses |
|
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| Intention to treat |
|
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| Adjusted analyses |
|
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| Outcomes description |
|
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| Primary endpoint (with definition) |
|
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| Secondary endpoint (with definition) |
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| Notes |
|
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| Rationale for sample size |
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| Reasons for exclusion |
|
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| List biases |
|
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| Funding source |
|
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| Is there any difference between
groups at baseline |
|
|
Discharge Plan data extraction/summary tables
| APPLICABILITY |
QUALITY |
| |
Wide Applicability:sample representative
of
Medicare population in relevant setting.
Patient’s age (older adult), gender, spectrum of
disease severity and type, etc are
representative of population of interest. |
|
A Good quality:Prospective, no obvious
biases or
reporting errors, <20% dropout, complete reporting of
data. |
| |
Moderate Applicability:sample is an important
sub-group of population of interest. Possibly
limited to a narrow or young age range, type of
disease, gender etc. |
|
B Fair quality:Problems with study/paper
unlikely to
cause major bias.. |
| |
Narrow Applicability:sample represents
only a
narrow, atypical subgroup of population of
interest, or old study. |
|
C Poor quality:Cannot exclude possible
significant
biases. Poor methods, incomplete data, reporting
errors. |
If applicability is graded narrow or moderate,
what are the limiting factors? |
If Quality is rated B or C, what are
the limiting factors?
(i.e., incomplete data, errors in analysis, definitions
not
clear, poor follow-up, dropouts) |
| |
|
Summary table templates
Randomized Controlled Studies (Intervention vs. Control), For
event rates
Population recruited:
| Outcome |
Study,
Year
Country |
Followup
Duration
(Intervention
y) |
No. Analyzed |
Control
Used |
Severity
of CHF |
Intervention
components |
Event Rate |
Net
change |
P
within |
P
Between |
Quality |
| Interv |
Control |
Interv |
Control |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Randomized Controlled Studies (Intervention vs. Control), For
continuous measures or that provide odds/risk ratio
Population recruited:
| Outcome |
Study,
Year
Country |
Followup
Duration
(Intervention
y) |
No. Analyzed |
Control
Used |
Severity
of CHF |
Intervention
components |
Baseline |
Results/Final |
Quality |
| Interv |
Control |
Metric/
Units |
Interv |
Control |
P
Between |
| |
| |
| |
| |
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