Table 3.
Types of evidence included in the review (n = 127)
| Method | Description | References |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative methods (n = 30; 23.1%) | Cross‐sectional (n = 13) | Armstrong‐Stassen and Cameron (2005); Cameron et al. (2004); Caplan (2005); Denton, Zeytinoglu, and Davies (2008); Doran et al. (2007a); Doran et al. (2007b); Kaasalainen, Brazil, et al. (2011); Krueger et al. (2002); Lehoux et al. (2003); Stewart et al. (2005); Valaitis et al. (2014); Williams (2006); Zeytinoglu et al. (2009) |
| Not specified (n = 7) | Alameddine, Laporte, Baumann, O'Brien‐Pallas, Croxford, et al. (2006); Alameddine, Laporte, Baumann, O'Brien‐Pallas, Mildon, et al. (2006); Cockerill et al. (2002); Davenport et al. (2005); Popovich et al. (2010); Shields and Wilkins (2006); Underwood, Deber, et al. (2009) | |
| Secondary analysis (n = 3) | Alameddine et al. (2014); Alameddine et al. (2009); Pitblado, Medves, and Stewart (2005) | |
| Randomised control trial (n = 3) | Markle‐Reid et al. (2013); Markle‐Reid et al. (2011); Pham, Harrison, Chen, and Carley (2012) | |
| Pre/post evaluation (n = 2) | Doran et al. (2010); Harrison et al. (2005) | |
| Cost analysis (n = 1) | Harris and Shannon (2008) | |
| Cohort (n = 1) | Harrison et al. (2011) | |
| Mixed methods (n = 23; 17.7%) | Andrews et al. (2010); Canadian Homecare Association (2011); Davies et al. (2008); Denton et al. (2003); Doran et al. (2013); Ganann et al. (2010); Gifford, Davies, et al. (2013); Gifford, Graham, and Davies (2013); Gifford et al. (2014); Markle‐Reid et al. (2014); McGillis Hall et al. (2011); Mildon (2011); Mitton, O'Neil, Simpson, Hoppins, and Harcus (2007); Morin et al. (2009); Nagle and White (2013); Ogilvie et al. (2004); Pesut et al. (2015); Price et al. (2005); Shamian, Mildon, et al. (2006); Shaw, Sidhu, Kearney, Keeber, and McKay (2013); Underwood, Mowat, et al. (2009); Wagner and Gregory (2015); Zeytinoglu and Denton (2006) | |
| Qualitative methods (n = 17; 13.1%) | Not specified (n = 5) | Abelson et al. (2004); Arnaert et al. (2009); Arnaert and Wainwright (2009); Barakat et al. (2013); Bergeron et al. (2006) |
| Descriptive qualitative (n = 4) | Denton et al. (2014); Kaasalainen et al. (2014); Kaasalainen, Strachan, et al. (2011); Tourangeau et al. (2014) | |
| Ethnography (n = 3) | Funk and Stajduhar (2013); Giesbrecht et al. (2014); Higuchi et al. (2002) | |
| Grounded theory (n = 2) | Bediako (2002); Ploeg et al. (2014) | |
| Phenomenology (n = 1) | Marchessault et al. (2012) | |
| Interpretive Descriptive (n = 1) | Lang et al. (2009) | |
| Summative Evaluation (n = 1) | DeCicco (2008) | |
| Descriptive paper (n = 16; 12.3%) | Black, Barzilay, and English (2010); Black, Barzilay, and Sheppard (2010); Canadian Homecare Association (2009); Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (2006); Cote and Fox (2007); Dash (2007b); Goodwin et al. (2008); Kushner et al. (2008); Lankshear et al. (2010); AETMIS (2004); Masotti et al. (2006); McWilliam et al. (2003); Meadows (2009); Meadows et al. (2014); Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (2012b); Rivers et al. (2010) | |
| Multiple methods (n = 12; 10.8%) | Baranek (2010); Baumann, Blythe, et al. (2006); Baumann et al. (2004); Baumann, Underwood, et al. (2006); Doran et al. (2012); Doran et al. (2004); Home Care Sector Study Corporation (2003a); Macleod et al. (2008); Martin Misener et al. (2008); McIsaac (2005); Underwood (2003); VON Canada (2008) | |
| Position paper (n = 6; 3.8%) | Canadian Nurses Association (2013); Doran et al. (2014); Ontario Health Coalition (2011); Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (2011, 2012a); Schofield et al. (2010) | |
| Quality improvement paper (n = 5; 3.8%) | Dash (2007a); Korabek et al. (2004); Lorimer (2004); Lundrigan et al. (2010); Nasso (2006) | |
| Discussion paper (n = 4; 3.1%) | Forbes and Edge (2009); Heitlinger (2003); Kulig et al. (2004); Tuggey and Lewin (2014) | |
| Participatory action research (n = 4; 3.1%) | Denton et al. (2002); Longman and Gabriel (2004); Meadows and Prociuk (2012); Stevenson et al. (2008) | |
| Policy paper (n = 3; 2.3%) | Canadian Healthcare Association (2009), (2011); Canadian Home Care Association (2002) | |
| Case study (n = 3; 2.3%) | Denton et al. (2006); Denton et al. (2007); Morin et al. (2007) | |
| Literature review (n = 1; 0.8%) | VON Canada (2005) | |
| Scoping review (n = 1; 0.8%) | Macdonald et al. (2013) | |
| Other (n = 2) | Think aloud method (n = 1) | Roberts, McLeod, Stajduhar, Webber, and Milne (2014) |
| Evaluation Paper (n = 1) | Stacey et al. (2014) | |