| Study | Reason for exclusion |
|---|---|
| Addington‐Hall 1992 | Intervention does not meet criteria for palliative care; co‐ordinators did not provide "practical nursing care" or "specialist palliative care advice"; co‐ordination only |
| Brumley 2003 | CBA not meeting criteria, conducted in only 1 intervention site and 1 control site |
| Feldman 2011 | Intervention focused on staff education and mentoring with the main goal of increasing hospice admissions; not specifically aimed to support patients or caregivers at home |
| Hebert 2006 | Televisits provided in addition to standard home palliative care; additional component procedural only and non‐comprehensive addition to care |
| Kane 1984 | Intervention focused on inpatient care with a component of home care; however, inpatients and patients at home are shown together (both part of the hospice group); no subanalysis and frequent transits between inpatient and home care mentioned |
| McCorkle 2000 | Study conducted with post‐surgical patients and only a few died, thus population was not considered terminal/advanced |
| Morita 2012 | Study designed to be a cluster RCT but authors decided to adopt a mixed‐method approach because "1) the intervention itself should be applied to all populations over the country and clear distinction between intervention and control groups is difficult, 2) a concealment problem is likely to occur, and 3) the most important mission at a national level is not to clarify if one specific intervention actually changes outcomes, but to obtain comprehensive insights into how to disseminate palliative care throughout the country". The resulting study is an ITS that does not meeting the criteria for our review, where data collected in the two years prior the program was implemented (2007‐2008) was compared to data collected in the two years after program implementation (2010‐2011) |
| Smeenk 1998a | Intervention does not meet criteria for palliative care; "care specially tailored to meet his [patients] individual needs, and provided by professional caregivers from primary and hospital teams" |
| Temel 2010 | Intervention focused on outpatient meetings with patients at a large academic medical centre; not specifically aimed to support patients or caregivers at home |
CBA: controlled before and after study.