6. Outcomes: health practitioner outcomes.

Secondary outcomes: health practitioner knowledge and understanding; evaluation of communication, communication encounter or preparedness to communicate
Study ID	Evaluation of communication	Knowledge and understanding	Preparedness to communicate
Agar 2017	‐	Staff attitudes to, knowledge of providing palliative/EoL care PCPC assessed after training; other facility staff assessed after training by PCPC; Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia tool, 35 items (qPAD) No data	Staff confidence in providing palliative/EoL care PCPC assessed after training; other facility staff assessed after training by PCPC; Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia tool, 35 items (qPAD) No data
Bernacki 2019	‐	‐	Uptake and effectiveness of clinician training Use of conversation tool
Clayton 2007	Physician satisfaction with consultation 24 hours and 3 weeks post‐consultation	‐	‐

Bernacki 2019 also reported measures of clinician uptake and effectiveness of training to use their tool, and use of the tool. These were judged as measures related to implementation, rather than effects, of the intervention and data were therefore not analysed in this review.

EoL: end of life; PCPC: palliative care planning co‐ordinator.