Professional interventions vs usual care: ED visits
Professional interventions showed no clear difference in number of emergency department visits compared with standard/usual care (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Professional interventions vs standard/usual care Number of emergency department visits · adults receiving medication in primary care Professional interventions showed no clear difference in number of emergency department visits compared with standard/usual care (low certainty). Professional, structural and organisational interventions in primary care for reducing medication errors (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.71 [0.5, 1.02] | 1067 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional, structural and organisational interventions in primary care for reducing medication errors 2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.