Reported health resource use results from included studies
| First Author Year | Outcome (n) | Before | After | Effect direction | Quality assessment |
| Elston 201940 | Health and social costs (n=86) Average cost/person | £4506 | £8718 | ▼* | Good |
| Loftus 201744 | Number of people (n=68): | Good | |||
| GP surgery visits | 62 | 51 | ▲* | ||
| GP home visits | 3 | 7 | ▼ | ||
| GP telephone calls | 27 | 18 | ▲ | ||
| Total GP contacts | 27 | 27 | -- | ||
| No new repeat prescriptions | 58 | 53 | ▲ |
*Statistically significant finding; ‘--’=no change.
We provide a symbol (▲ or ▼) to represent the effect direction, for example, up arrow represents a positive finding. We also include the assessment of study quality based on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Quality Assessment Tool for Before–After (Pre–Post) Studies With No Control Group.38 Please note the results from44 are from the intention to treat analysis (n=68). For the per protocol analysis (n=28), there were no statistically significant findings.
GP, general practitioner.