CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE Systematic review of multidisciplinary interventions in heart failure

or full paper screened (n = 667) Potentially appropriate studies (n = 74) Trials of appropriate interventions for further review (n = 41) Trials with outcome data useful in meta-analysis (total = 30) • 21 all-cause re-admission data • 27 all-cause mortality data • 16 heart failure re-admission data • 10 mean inpatient days Excluded on basis of title alone as not primary research or inappropriate intervention (n = 8465) Excluded because: not RCT, not multidisciplinary intervention, or study population did not have congestive heart failure (n = 593) Excluded because: Quasi-experimental trial = 3 Trial incomplete/yet to report = 16 Control group not usual care = 4 Duplicate reporting of data or subgroup analysis = 10 Excluded because: Insufficient or inappropriate outcome data and no further data available from author = 11 Figure 1 Flowchart describing study selection and excluded studies. RCT, randomised controlled trial. Multidisciplinary interventions in heart failure 901 www.heartjnl.com group.bmj.com on June 23, 2017 Published by http://heart.bmj.com/ Downloaded from