Transitions of care interventions to improve quality of life among patients hospitalized with acute conditions: a systematic literature review

Oyesanya, Tolu O.; Loflin, Callan; Byom, Lindsey; Harris, Gabrielle; Daly, Kaitlyn; Rink, Lesley; Bettger, Janet Prvu

doi:10.1186/s12955-021-01672-5

Table 1 Study characteristics (N = 17 studies)

From: Transitions of care interventions to improve quality of life among patients hospitalized with acute conditions: a systematic literature review

References	Country	Population of focus	Study design	Quality of Life Measure	Quality assessment summary score/ out of 1.0
Abad-Corpa et al. [38]	Spain	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	Quasi-Experimental	Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)	.9090
Aboumatar et al. [24]^a and [26]	United States	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	RCT	Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)	.9090; .9285
Boter [39]	Netherlands	Stroke	RCT	Short-Form-36 (SF-36)	.9285
Chow et al. [32]	China	Peritoneal dialysis/hemodialysis	RCT	Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SFTM)	.9642
Claiborne [28]	United States	Stroke	RCT	Short-Form-36 (SF-36)	.75
Fjærtoft et al. [30]	Norway	Stroke	RCT	Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)	.857
Hanssen et al. [31]	Norway	Myocardial infarction	RCT	Short-Form-36 (SF-36)	.821
Harrison et al. [34]	Canada	Congestive heart failure	RCT	Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)	.964
Hermiz et al. [40]	Australia	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	RCT	Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)	.785
Konstam et al. [27] and Weintraub et al. [25]^a	United States	Congestive heart failure	RCT	Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)	.785;.892
Mehralian et al. [36]	Iran	Congestive heart failure	RCT	Short-Form-36 (SF-36)	.821
Rezapour-Nasrabad [37]	Iran	Chronic heart failure	RCT	Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)	.785
Wells et al. [42]	United Kingdom	Breast cancer	RCT	Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) and EQ-5D	.884
Whitaker-Brown et al. [29]	United States	Heart failure	Prospective one group pre- and post-test design	Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)	.95
Wierzchowiecki et al. [41]	Poland	Chronic heart failure	RCT	Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)	.714
Wong et al. [33]	China	Stroke	RCT	Short-Form-36 (SF-36)	.892
Woodend et al. [35]	Canada	Cardiac disease	RCT	Short-Form-36 (SF-36)	.821

RCT, randomized controlled trial
^aArticle included to provide context for related article

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