Table 2.

Quasi Experimental Trials and their description

Author (Yr.) Sample size (N) Design	*Target Interventions	Settings	Delivery of Intervention	Intervention content	Outcomes measured	Results
Coleman, 2004 N=158	Caregivers and patients	Transition from hospital to rehab or home	Geriatric NP	Medication self-management, personal (shared) health record, collaboration with primary and specialty physicians, symptoms management	Rehospitalization rates, ED visits	Rehospitalized within 30 days: 8.9% in intervention vs. 13.8% in control, (p=0.04). Rehospitalized within 90 days: 13.5% in intervention vs. 22.9% in control, (p=0.002). Time to first rehospitalization 225.5 days in intervention vs. 217 days in control (p=0.003)
Boustani, 2011 N=176 (first yr.)	Caregivers	Community dwelling older adults	Dementia care coordinator through home-based and telephone-based communication	Education on behavior management, medication adherence support, care coordination, caregiver support, medication review by dementia expert	Acute care utilization, medication appropriateness, control of cardiovascular disease	Intervention group had lower proportion of inappropriate medications 16% vs. 32%; higher treatment of depression (68 % vs. 48%) and dementia medications (55% vs. 13%) and higher proportions meeting disease state control targets for cardiovascular disease
Hendrix, 2011 N=50	Caregivers	Hospitalized patients at time of discharge	Nurse	70-minute face-to-face training with telephone follow-up at 1 week medication management education, symptom management, education on community resources, and personalized education about home care	Lorig’s Self-Efficacy Scale (modified) Caregiving Preparedness Family Caregiving Inventory	Improved self-efficacy (Modified Lorig’s self-efficacy scale score) and preparedness (subscale of the Family Caregiving Inventory) immediately following training and up to four weeks (p-values not reported).
Kimball, 2010 N=66	Caregivers and patients	Hospital-based Rehabilitation unit	Nurse	Medication information delivered in three formats: 1) standardized med information; 2) Geragogy-based single session; 3) Geragogy-based dual session	Author-developed scale for Med Knowledge and confidence in medication administration	No difference in med knowledge between teaching methods. Improved confidence in medication administration in family/caregivers regardless of the teaching method (p<0.001).

^*All available demographic information of caregivers are reported in the table

Abbreviations: Med=Medication(s), NP=Nurse Practitioner, SW=Social Worker, Yr=Year, Rehab=Rehabilitation