Table 1.

Search strategy

Combinations of MeSH and text words searched

“Disease management” [MeSH] “Disease management” “Disease state management” “Delivery of Health Care, Integrated” [MeSH] “Comprehensive Health Care” [MeSH:NoExp] “Patient Care Planning” [MeSH] NOT “Advance Care Planning” [MeSH] “Primary Health Care” [MeSH] NOT “Refusal to Treat” [MeSH] “Patient Care Team” [MeSH:NoExp] “Critical Pathways” [MeSH] “Case Management” [MeSH] “Continuity of Patient Care” [MeSH] “Practice Guidelines” [MeSH] “Guidelines” [MeSH] “Clinical Protocols” [MeSH:NoExp] “Patient Education” [MeSH] “Self Care” [MeSH:NoExp] “Reminder systems” [MeSH] “Health Education“ [MeSH] “Health Promotion” [MeSH:NoExp] “Community Health Planning” [MeSH] “Ambulatory Care” [MeSH] (Patient OR providers) AND feedback (Patient OR providers) AND reminder (Patient OR providers) AND monitor$ OR/1–24 “Epidemiologic Research Design” [MeSH] NOT “Sensitivity and Specificity” [MeSH] “Clinical Trials” [MeSH:NoExp] “Controlled Clinical Trials” [MeSH] “Randomized Controlled Trials” [MeSH] “Multicenter Studies” [MeSH] “Epidemiologic Studies” [MeSH] NOT “Seroepidemiologic Studies” [MeSH] “Pilot Projects” [MeSH] “Sampling Studies” [MeSH] “Program Evaluation” [MeSH] “Intervention Studies” [MeSH] “Evaluation Studies” [MeSH:NoExp] OR 26–36 Controlled Clinical Trial [pt] Clinical Trial [pt] Multicenter Study [pt] Randomized Controlled Trial [pt] Evaluation Studies [pt] Meta-analysis [pt] OR 38–43 37 OR 44 AND “Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive” [MeSH] 25 AND 45 Limit 47 to human Limit 48 to yr 1995–2007 Limit 49 to English