Table 2.

Focus of care home papers reviewed

Research focus of papers reviewed with one or more outcomes of interest (medication use; use of out-of-hours services; hospital admissions including emergency department attendances; length of hospital stay; and user satisfaction)	References
Medication management	[31–33, 39, 84–90]
End of life care	[49, 55, 56, 62, 90–94]
Resident health promotion (e.g. nutrition, flu prevention, tissue viability, oral health, functional improvement, dementia care, falls prevention)	[48–50, 53, 58, 60, 61, 74, 95–98]
Management of depression and related interventions	[36, 39, 45, 46, 60, 61, 85, 99–101]
Pay for performance/audit	[28, 30, 101, 102]
Interventions to promote health service use, integration of health and social care services in care homes including specialist roles and reduce use of secondary care	[11, 13, 27, 38, 65, 70, 102–106]