Effects of intensive home visiting programs for older people with poor health status: A systematic review

Table 1 Included trials in systematic reviews on home visiting programs

		Haastregt [1] 2000	Elkan [2]* 2001	Stuck [3] 2002	Meinck [4]^† 2004
		Electronic search
Author(s)	Year	1966–1999	1966–1997	1985–2001	up to 2003
Luker [48]	1981	x	x
Gunner et al. [49]	1984			x	x
Vetter et al. [50]^‡	1984	x	x	x	x
Hendriksen et al. [51]	1984	x	x	x	x
Sorensen et al. [52]	1988	x		x	x
Balaban et al. [33]	1988		x		x
Carpenter et al. [53]	1990	x		x	x
McEwan et al. [54]	1990	x	x	x	x
Oktay et al. [55]	1990		x		x
Clarke et al. [56]	1992			x	x
Hall [20]	1992	x	x		x
Pathy et al. [32]	1992	x	x	x	x
Hansen et al. [30]	1992		x		x
Williams et al. [27]	1992		x		x
Vetter et al. [57]	1992	x		x	x
van Rossum et al. [8, 9]	1993	x	x	x	x
Dunn et al. [34]	1994		x		x
Fabacher et al. [58]	1994	x	x	x	x
Tinetti et al. [29]	1994	x		x	x
Wagner et al. [59]	1994	x			x
Archbold et al. [60]	1995		x		x
Stuck et al. [61]	1995	x	x	x	x
Dalby et al. [21]	2000				x
Stuck et al. [15]	2000			x	x
van Haastregt et al. [23, 24]	2000			x	x
Hebert et al. [62]	2001			x	x
Newbury et al. [63]	2001			x	x
Gill et al. [44]	2003				x
Yamada et al. [22]	2003				x

*Evaluates home visiting programs that offer health promotion and preventive care; includes nonrandomized controlled trials.
† Based on the previous reviews with addition of three trials.
‡ One study describing two trials.

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