SynthesisCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2005
Effectiveness of preventive primary care outreach interventions aimed at older people: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Synthesis in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for community-dwelling, high-risk, frail, older people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to Prevent or Delay Long-Term Nursing Home Placement for Adults with Impairments-a Systematic Review of Reviews.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Effects of intensive home visiting programs for older people with poor health status: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2008Pooled it
- Anticipatory care planning for community-dwelling older adults at risk of functional decline: a feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2022Trial
- Effect of preventive primary care outreach on health related quality of life among older adults at risk of functional decline: randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2010Trial
- Population-oriented health promotion and disease prevention interventions in primary healthcare: a scoping review of reviews.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Solid reasons to equitably screen.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2025Article
- Outreach work in Belgian primary care practices during COVID-19: results from the cross-sectional PRICOV-19 study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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- Preventive care recommendations to promote health equity.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023Article
- Home/Community-Based Medical and Elderly Care Services Utilization in China: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Middle-Aged and Elderly Population.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Patterns of home care and community support preferences among older adults with disabilities in China: a latent class analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during COVID-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of a home health monitoring and education program for complex chronic patients, led by primary care nurses.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Symptoms of depression and anxiety, and unmet healthcare needs in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Primary care embedded within permanent supportive housing for people who use substances: A qualitative study examining healthcare access in Vancouver, Canada.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Identifying the Knowledge Structure and Trends of Outreach in Public Health Care: A Text Network Analysis and Topic Modeling.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Place of the periodic medical check-up in basic health care in Tunisia.La Tunisie medicale · 2021Article
- Self-rated health, lifestyle habits and risk assessment in 75-year-old persons attending preventive clinic visits with a nurse in primary health care: a cross-sectional study.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the effectiveness of preventive primary care outreach interventions aimed at older people. Knowing whether such interventions are effective could help busy family physicians make choices about which preventive care services to provide. DATA SOURCES: We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, AgeLine, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and EMBASE databases and reviewed the reference lists of retrieved articles. STUDY SELECTION: We included studies of preventive primary care interventions aimed at patients 65 years and older if the studies were randomized controlled trials and if any of the following outcomes was reported: mortality, living in the community, admission to acute care hospitals, and admission to long-term care. We defined preventive primary care outreach as proactive, provider-initiated care, which can be provided by nurses, physicians, other professionals, or volunteers, that is in addition to usual care and is provided in primary care settings. Such care can be provided through home visits, office visits, telephone contacts, or a combination of these methods. SYNTHESIS: We assessed the quality of studies and extracted descriptive information on study populations, interventions, and outcomes for 19 trials involving 14,911 patients. Summary odds ratios were estimated for each outcome using a random effects model.
conclusionThis review showed that studies of preventive primary care outreach interventions aimed at older people were associated with a 17% reduction of mortality and a 23% increased likelihood of continuing to live in the community.
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