Results

Description of the articles

The documents reviewed span almost three decades (1992 to 2020) and provide information on home care services or interventions in 16 countries. Among the 113 documents reviewed, 27 were secondary reviews of the evidence, including 17 systematic reviews. The remaining 87 documents included 24 articles reporting the results of 22 randomized controlled trials (RCT), 31 documents based on non-RCT quantitative methods, 11 documents based on qualitative methods, 2 documents relying on mixed methods and 16 documents providing purely descriptive or conceptual content.