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.