Systematic Review
The importance of organizational characteristics for improving outcomes in patients with chronic disease: a systematic review of congestive heart failure
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* Corresponding author: Luci K Leykum leykum@uthscsa.edu
1 South Texas Veterans Health Care System and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio TX, 78229, USA
2 South Texas Veterans Health Care System and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio TX, 78229, USA
3 McComb's School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA
Implementation Science 2010, 5:66 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-5-66
Published: 25 August 2010Additional files
Additional file 1:
Search strategy to identify studies of organizational interventions to improve outcomes for patients with congestive heart failure. Search completed 17 July 2008. Additional file 1 is a word document detailing the keywords and number of results identified by each keyword used in our search strategy.
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Additional file 2:
Summary of eligible studies of organizational interventions on outcomes of patients with congestive heart failure. Additional file 2 is a word document listing each eligible study, along with details regarding sample size, our ratings of its intervention and the number of CAS characteristics leveraged, follow-up duration, and presence or absence of unit of analysis error.
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Additional file 3:
Detail of analysis for individual CAS characteristics and intervention effectiveness for CHF. Additional file 3 is a table in word document format that lists each CAS characteristic, the number of studies in which the characteristic was utilized, and the range of intervention effectiveness scores for those studies.
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