Table 2.

Categories of interventions by effectiveness

Intervention categories	References
	Effective	Not effective
Telephone follow-up and pre-discharge interventions
• Pre-discharge patient education and telephone follow-up	Sales et al. [35]	-
• Pre-discharge planning and telephone follow-up	Dai et al.-craniotomy [37]; Naylor et al.-medical [36]	Dai et al.-stroke [37]; Naylor et al.-surgical [36]
Telephone follow-up and post-discharge interventions
• Telephone follow-up, printed education materials and case management	-	Riegel et al. [31]
Telephone follow-up and pre-and post-discharge interventions
• Pre-discharge education, telephone follow-up, and home visits	-	Jaarsma et al. [32]
• Pre-discharge education, physical therapy and dietary consult, discharge planning, telephone follow up and home visits	Anderson et al. [29]	-
• Patient-centred, transition-focused care curriculum for residents, medication assessment, telephone follow up and home visits	Record et al. [34]	-
• Pre-discharge education, dietetic consults, telephone follow-up, and primary care or specialist follow-up	-	McDonald et al. [33]
Telephone follow-up and telemedicine
• Telephone follow-up, telemedicine and telephone hotline	-	Sorknaes et al. 2011 [30]; Sorknaes et al. 2013 [28]