3. Patient outcome: compliance and other.

Study	Compliance	Other
Mundinger 2000		Rating information (5 items): no differencea,b
Venning 2000		Enablement: nurse vs GP, MD = 0.65 (CI ‐1.50 to 0.19), P = 0.13
Voogdt‐Pruis 2010	Patient adherence to medical treatment after 1 year of follow‐up nurse vs doctor (95% CI) Medication blood pressure: 92.2 vs 84.9 (1.06 to 3.73; P = 0.03) Forgetting to take medication: group difference 1.32 (0.88 to 1.97; P = 0.18) ‐ Never: 52.6 vs 61.0 ‐ Sometimes: 46.8 vs 39.0 Patient lifestyle after 1 year of follow‐up nurse vs doctor (95% CI) ‐ Exercise: 28.6 vs 27.3 (0.73 to 1.67; P = 0.79) ‐ Alcohol 5 days per week at most: 78.6 vs 75.5 (0.79 to 2.01; P = 0.33) ‐ Alcohol 2 for woman, 3 for man at most: 79.1 vs 80.6 (0.53 to 1.56; P = 0.73) ‐ Fat intake: 6.5 vs 7.2 (0.02 to 1.28; P = 0.04)

^aTrial authors reported only the direction of the outcome; it is unknown if the difference is statistically significant.

^bTrial authors reported no effect size or reported effect sizes on graphs (no exact effect sizes extracted).

CI: confidence interval.

GP: general practitioner.

MD: mean difference.