Table 2.
Data content: variables recorded in the studies
| Birtwhistle 2009 [17] | Bollag 2009 [18] | Boydell et al. 1995 [19] | Deprez et al. 2002 [20] | Fleming et al. 2003 [28] | Klompas et al. 2012 [21] | Namusisi et al. 2011 [22] | Saran et al. 2010 [26] | Szeles et al. 2005 [23] | Trepka et al. 2009 [24] | Westert et al. 2005 [25] | Yiannakoulias et al. 2009 [27] | No. of studies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 12 |
| Age | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 12 |
| Gender | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 12 |
| Test results | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||||
| Prescriptions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||||
| No. of patient contacts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||||
| Referral | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||||
| Complications | ✓ | 1 | |||||||||||
| Address | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||||
| Risk factors | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||||
| Obesity/BMI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 | |||||||||
| Smoking | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||||
| Alcohol | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||||
| Blood pressure | ✓ | ✓ | 2 | ||||||||||
| Family history | ✓ | 1 | |||||||||||
| Physical exercise | ✓ | 1 | |||||||||||
| Allergies | ✓ | 1 | |||||||||||
| Ethnicity | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |