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. 2021 Jun 13;21:575. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06576-0

Table 1.

Summary of study articles

Characteristics Content
MATERIAL
Publication Year: No of articles

2008–2011: 5

2012–2015: 23

2016–2019: 42

Study country/location Australia: 6, Canada: 4, China: 1, Denmark: 1, Finland: 2, France: 1, Germany: 2, India: 1, Indonesia: 1, Iran: 1, Israel: 1, Italy: 2, International consortium: 5, Japan: 1, The Netherlands: 7, Philippines: 1, Switzerland: 1, Taiwan: 1, United Kingdom: 4, USA: 29
Health Topic

Acute orthopedic surgery: 1

Cancer: 13

Thyroid cancer: 1

Breast cancer: 2

Radiotherapy: 1

Cancer screening: 3

Lung cancer: 1

Cancer: 1

Head and neck cancer: 1

Cancer survivors: 1

Urological cancer: 1

Cancer-related fatigue of patients with ovarian cancer: 1

Children with autism spectrum disorders: 1

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): 1

Children with learning disabilities: 1

Children with obesity: 1

Chronic conditions: 2

Chronic disease (prevention): 2

Dementia/mental illness: 3

Diabetes 2: 1

Diversity: 1

Elderly: 9

End-of-life: 1

Genomic characteristics: 2

Hemophilia: 1

High needs high costs: 3

Higher utilizers: 5

Homeless: 1

Hospitalized patients: 1

Immigrants: 1

Kidney transplantation: 1

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT): 1

Marginalizing conditions: 1

Medical tourism: 1

Obesity: 1

Pediatric palliative care: 1

Pregnant women: 1

Sickle cell disease: 1

Spinal cord injury: 1

Transversal (all patients): 8

Visual impairment: 1

Women friendly-environment: 1

Type of review

Administrative report: 2

Engineering: 1

Health service research: 23

Medical: 28

Nursing: 9

Pharmaceutical: 2

Social science: 5

Care Customization Efforts
Applied versus potential/proposed intervention Applied: 27
Potential/proposed: 43
Segmentation Analysis
Patient characteristics1
  Type of patient characteristics associated Clinical: 51
Cost: 8
Psychosocial: 39
Service: 30
All types, no clear definition: 112
No association:
Clinical needs: 12
Service needs: 1
Psychosococial needs: 2
One association:
Clinical and psychosocial needs: 11
Clinical and service needs: 1
Clinical needs and cost: 3
Psychosocial and service needs: 4
Two associations:
Clinical, psychosocial and service needs: 19
Three associations:
Clinical, psychosocial, service needs and cost: 5
  Intervention No precision: 1
Fabrication: 20
Assembly: 7
Distribution: 54
  Impact evaluation3 No: 52
Yes: 18
Cost: 6
Negative personality traits associated with expensive health care services: 1
Reducing health care costs for high needs high costs: 1
Reducing readmissions: 2
Reducing Emergency Department (ED) and length of stay for high utilizers: 2
Experience: 7
Improving care provision: 1
Communication: 2
Patient experience: 1
Patient experience (homeless): 1
Quality-of-life: 2
Quality: 5
Appropriate treatment: 1
Depressive symptoms: 1
Monitoring LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) cholesterol: 1
Weight reduction: 1
Better outcomes: 1
Theories
Articles referring to MC Yes: 6
No: 64
Theories informing conceptual basis related to Care Customization (n = 20) Collaborative intervention planning framework: 1
Comprehensive geriatric assessment: 1
Consumer-direct care: 1
Equity-oriented health care model: 1
Essential care model: 1
Individualized care: 6
Inter-organizational collaboration: 1
Modularity service: 1
Optimization of personalized assortments: 1
Organizational approach of diversity: 1
Patient-centered care: 3
Patient-centered segmentation: 2
Patient needs: 1
Patient profiling: 1
Personality factors and traits: 3
Personalized and precision medicine: 5
Population strategies in integrated care: 1
Professional practice environnement: 1
Psychosocial marketing segmentation technique: 1
Quality assurance method: 1
Social marketing theories (social learning theory, health belief model): 1
Trans theoretical Model: 1

1Articles could develop more than one of the four types of patient characteristics, and more than one of the three intervention steps, as well as more than one theory as a conceptual basis. For more details, see Table 2

2In some cases, segmentation analysis was mentioned, but without any explicit definition of patient characteristics

3The impact evaluation list is in Table 2