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Collaboration and its outcomes in primary care compared internationally. A systematic literature review. Sanneke Schepman Johan Hansen Ronald Batenburg Dinny de Bakker Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) 4 September 2012. Background. What is already known ?
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Collaboration and its outcomes in primary care compared internationally A systematic literature review Sanneke Schepman Johan Hansen Ronald Batenburg Dinny de Bakker Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) 4 September 2012
Background What is alreadyknown? Lots of articlesdescribecollaboration in primary care anditsoutcomes, but the “black box” is notopen yet Therefore we conducted a systematicliterature review toseeif we couldfind out • howcertainelements of multidisciplinarycollaboration in primary health care relatetooutcomesforpatientsand professionals
Search strategy We searchedPubmed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and EMBASE for relevant studies. Search terms: Inclusion criteria: • Middle or high incomecountries • Studies withquantitative data or literature reviews OR AND
Studies identified (n=2760) MEDLINE (Pubmed): n= 2172 CINAHL: n= 326 Embase: n= 115 Cochrane: n= 147 Methods Duplicate studies excluded: n= 243 Selection process Potentially relevant studies screened for retrieval: n= 2507 Studies excluded based on title (n=1742) and abstract (n=652) Reasons abstract exclusion:- Sector n= 154 - Subject n= 218- Countries n= 3- Methods n= 205 Studies retrieved for more detailed information:n= 113 Studies excluded based on full text (n= 29) Reasons: - Subject n= 17 - No outcomes n= 7 - Methods (quality) n= 5 Studies ultimately included in the review:Included= 25Waiting for second opinion= 18Pending= 34 Literature reviews:n= 2* 4
Year of publication and origin of the studies (n= 25) Europe laggingbehind? No studies before 2000 on this topic?
Collaboration (n= 25 studies) * There was 1 study where outcomes were significant but negatively associated with the activity.
What’s next? • Describe structural characteristics of the collaboration • Linking collaborative activities with outcomes
Key messages • Development of care plans and multidisciplinary meetings is popular and seems to be successful in more than half of the cases. • Objective outcomes for patients seem to improve more often • Few research on outcomes of collaboration for professionals • Inconclusiveevidencefor (positive) effects of multidisciplinarycollaboration