73. Caregiver post‐bereavement healthcare use and absenteeism from work.

Study	Measure	Analysis	Time horizon	Significance and direction	Details
Greer 1986 (CBA)	1) Physician visits after the patient died (score: from 0 to 4+, 0 = none; caregiver report)   2) Hospitalisation after the patient died (yes/no; caregiver report)   3) Absenteeism from workafter the patient died (yes/no; caregiver report)	Forwards from death	First 90‐120 days following death	Physician visits and hospitalisation Authors stated there were no differences but statistical significance was not stated "no difference in morbidity, i.e. hospitalization, physician visits (…) during the bereavement period" (Greer 1986)   Absenteeism from work n.s. "Few PCPs (4%) reported increased absenteeism from work (…), with no statistically significant differences among settings" (Greer 1986)	Adjusted estimatesa Physician visits Community‐based intervention: M 1.35 (SE 0.17) Hospital‐based intervention: M 1.25 (SE 0.22) Control (conventional care): M 0.95 (SE 0.28) Hospitalisation Community‐based intervention: 6% (SE 0.01) Hospital‐based intervention: 6% (SE ‐0.01) Control (conventional care): 5% (SE 0.02) Absenteeism from work Descriptive data not provided

CBA: controlled before and after study; M: mean; n.s.: non‐significant; SE: standard error.
^aStandard errors of the estimates based on a multiple regression equation for interval‐scale variables and logistic regression equation for dichotomous variables adjusted for sample differences.