Table 3.

Themes identified in each study: remote reassurance-a safety net of health care professionals (HCPs) Connection.

Paper	Active connection “I can always get in touch”	Passive connection “Somebody to keep an eye on them”	Slipping through the net “Missed the connection”
Beaver, Williamson and Chalmers, 2010 [30]	✓a		✓
Chambers et al, 2015 [35]	✓		✓
Cornwall, Moore, and Plant, 2008 [37] Chan et al, 2013 [36]	✓		✓
Cox et al, 2008 [31]	✓
Cox and Faithfull, 2015 [32]	✓	✓
Fergus et al, 2014 [33]			✓
Head et al, 2011 [38]
Hogberg et al, 2013 [39]			✓
Hogberg et al, 2015 [40]	✓	✓	✓
Kearney et al, 2006 [41]	✓	✓
Kilbourn et al, 2013 [42]
Lai et al, 2015 [43]		✓
Livingston et al, 2006 [34]
Maguire et al, 2015 [44]		✓
McCall et al, 2008 [45]		✓
McCann et al, 2009 [46]		✓	✓
Ream et al, 2015 [47]
Snyder et al, 2013 [48]
Stacey et al, 2016 [49]	✓		✓
Williamson, Chalmers, and Beaver, 2015 [50]			✓
Zheng et al, 2013 [51]		✓

^a✓ indicates the theme was present within the paper.