Table 2.

Effect of strategies specified to setting

Strategy		No.	Primary care	Hospital	Nursing home	Hospice	Other, multiple or unknown settings
Single intervention studies	Lecture	3		Ke, 2008 (++)		Schim, 2006 (+)	Ersek, 2006 (++)
	Study day	2					Carr, 2003 (+); Dryden, 2009 (+)
	Role play	2		Hales, 2008 (+)			Back, 2007 (+)
	Interactive education	2		Bruneau, 2004 (−); Cooke, 2004 (+)
	Outreach visit	1					Newton, 2009 (+)
	Computer-facilitated education	4		Hulsman, 2002 (−); Jarabek, 2008 (++)			Ersek, 2008 (++); Smith, 2010 (+)
	Process mapping	1			Taylor, 2007 (+)
	Feedback	1		Velikova, 2004 (+)
	Multidisciplinary meetings	1		Lilly, 2000; Lilly, 2003 (++)
Multi-faceted intervention studies	Multi-educational interventions	25	Reymond, 2005 (++)	Bylund, 2010 (+/−); Furman, 2006 (+/−); Betcher, 2010 (+); Hall, 2007 (+); Kinnane, 2009 (+); Razavi, 2002 and Delvaux, 2004 (+); Fischer, 2007 (++); Kruse, 2008 (++); Bailey, 2005 (++); Fallowfield, 2001 (++); Gueguen, 2009 (++);Sutherland, 2007 (++); Yamagishi, 2009 (++)	Weissman, 2000 (+); Weissman, 2001 (+)		Bravemen, 2001 (+/−); Razavi, 2003 and Lienard, 2006 and Lienard, 2008 and Merckaert 2008 (+/−); Wilkinson, 2008 (+); Finset, 2003 (+); Favre, 2007 (++); Quinn, 2008 (++); Sullivan, 2005 (++); Wilkinson, 2002 (++); Wilkinson, 2003 (++)
	Mixed interventions	26	Boakes, 2000 (++)	Butow, 2008 (−); Curtis, 2011 (−); Fallowfield, 2002 and Jenkins, 2002 and Shilling, 2003 and Fallowfield, 2003 (+/−); Hansen, 2009 (+/−); Hills, 2009 (+/−); Jacobs, 2002 (+/−); McCormick, 2010 (+/−); Morgan, 2010 (+/−); Roila, 2004 (+/−); Kinley, 2004 (+); Lankshear, 2010 (+); Mirando, 2005 (+); Monteleoni, 2004 (+); Okon, 2009 (+); Smith, 2009 (+); Bookbinder, 2005 (++); Dauer, 2006 (++)	Hanson, 2005 (+); Hockley, 2010 (+); Lyon, 2007 (+); Reynolds, 2004 (+); Strumpf, 2004 (+); Keay, 2003 (++)		Stacey, 2008 (+); Woo, 2011 (+)

++ significant improvement, + improvement, +/− mixed or limited effect, − no effect