Table 1.
General characteristics of the included studies.
| Study Year | Study Design | Population Setting (N) | Country | Age (Y) |
Patients (N) |
Duration (M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agar M. 2009 | Post-hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial | Home-dwelling: 89.0% (410) Nursing homes 6.5% (30) |
Australia | 71 ± 12 † | 461 § | 24 |
| Wawruch M. 2011 |
Retrospective cohort study | Hospital | Slovakia | 78 ± 7 † | 1636 | 24 |
| Kuang-Hua H.2012 | Retrospective cohort study | National Health Insurance database | Taiwan | >65 | 72,556 | 12 |
| Allen C. 2017 | Retrospective cohort study | Nursing homes | United States | >18 | 6556 | 24 |
| Hwang S. 2019 | Retrospective cohort study | National Health Insurance database | Korea | 75 ± 7 † | 118,750 | 3 |
| O’Dwyer M. 2016 | Cross-sectional study | Home-dwelling: 16.6% (122) Nursing homes: 83.4% (614) |
Ireland | 54 ± 9 † | 736 | - |
| Briet J. 2017 | Cross-sectional study | Psychiatric facility | France | 50 ‡ | 7278 | - |
| Mayer T. 2017 | Cross-sectional study | Home-dwelling | Germany | 73 ± 6 † | 2761 | - |
| De Vreese L. P. 2018 | Cross-sectional study | Nursing homes 57.6% (159) Home-dwelling 42.4% (117) |
Italy | 55 ± 8 † | 276 | - |
| O’Connell J. 2018 | Cross-sectional study | Nursing homes: 84.9% (574) Home-dwelling: 15.1% (102) |
Ireland | >40 | 676 | - |
| Sevilla-Sánchez D. 2018 | Cross-sectional study | Hospital | Spain | 87 ± 5 † | 235 | - |
† Average (Standard deviation). ‡ Median. § Analysis included only 304 patients. Female %, Percent of female patients in the studied population. M, Months.