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Electronic databases searched and search strategies

Databases searched:

In collaboration with a librarian with expertise in electronic searches we searched the following databases for English or Dutch language papers: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED); Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) (from inception to February 2003); British Nursing Index (BNI); Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINHAL); the Cochrane database of systematic reviews; database of abstracts of reviews (DARE); the Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL); Embase; Health Management Information Consortium Database (HMIC); PubMed; National Research Register (NNR); System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe (SIGLE); Psyc-Info; Science Citation Index; Social Science Citation Index; and the Steinberg Collection of Nursing (theses collection). All databases other than ASSIA were searched from January 1980, or their inception, to January 2005.

Eight Dutch bibliographic citation databases were searched in Dutch, these were:

1. Database of the National Expert Centre Nursing and Care

(www.levv.nl Landelijk Expertisecentrum Verpleging en Verzorging).

2. Website General Association of Nurses and Caretakers

(www.avvv.nl Algemene Vereniging Verpleegkundigen en Verzorgenden).

3. Dutch Institute for Scientific Information Services

(www.niwi.nl Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten)

4. Datafile Foundation Research and Development Public Health

(www.xs4all.nl/~stoom/ Stichting Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Maatschappelijke Gezondheidszorg)

5. Datafile Dutch Institute for Research of Health Care

(www.nivel.nl Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek van de Gezondheidszorg)

6. Dutch Central Catalogue (http://picarta.pica.nl)

 

Hand search of conference proceeding abstracts

We attempted to search conference abstracts for the period January 1993 to September 1993 but in most cases we were unable to obtain a complete set of conference proceedings for this period.

Conference proceedings

Years searched

American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Association of Respiratory Nurses

Australian and New Zealand Thoracic society

British Thoracic Society (BTS)


European Respiratory Society (ERS)


International Primary Care Respiratory Group

RCN-Research Society Conference

Royal College of Nursing Respiratory Nurses Forum (and newsletter)

2001-2003

2002-2003

2001

1995-2003

1997-2003

2002-2003

1993-2003

2001-2003

Search Strategies:

For the Dutch language databases, a complex search strategy was not developed because the databases were relatively small. The following search terms in Dutch were used to search the databases: ‘Respiratory nurse’, ‘Respiratory nursing’, ‘COPD’, ‘Chronic bronchitis’, ‘Lung emphysema‘, ‘Airway obstruction’ and ‘CARA’ (chronische aspecifieke respiratoire aandoeningen, a term used to differentiate COPD from asthma)

PubMed Search strategy

#1 COPD

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR COPD [Text Word])

#2 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [Text Word])

#3 COAD

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR COAD [Text Word])

#4 chronic obstructive airway disease

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR chronic obstructive airway disease [Text Word])

#5 "Chronic obstructive airways disease"

#6 chronic obstructive lung disease

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR chronic obstructive lung disease [Text Word])

#7 chronic bronchitis

("bronchitis, chronic"[MeSH Terms] OR chronic bronchitis [Text Word])

#8 emphysema

(("pulmonary emphysema"[MeSH Terms] OR "emphysema"[MeSH Terms]) OR emphysema [Text Word])

#9 "irreversible airways disease"

("irreversible airways disease"[All Fields])

#10 Search chronic airflow obstruction

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR chronic airflow obstruction[Text Word])

#11 Search chronic airflow limitation

("pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive"[MeSH Terms] OR chronic airflow limitation[Text Word])

#12 Search #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11

#13 nurs*

#14 "Nurses"[MESH]

#15 "nursing"[MESH]

#16 nursing care

(("nursing"[MeSH Subheading] OR "nursing care"[MeSH Terms]) OR nursing care[Text Word])

#17 "nursing care"[All Fields]

#18 nursing process

("nursing process"[MeSH Terms] OR nursing process[Text Word])

#19 "nursing process" [All Fields]

#20 "nursing services"[MESH:noexp]

#21 "nursing services"[All Fields]

#22 nurse-patient relations

("nurse-patient relations"[MeSH Terms] OR nurse-patient relations[Text Word])

#23 nurse's role

("nurse's role"[MeSH Terms] OR "nurse s role"[Text Word])

#24 community health nursing

("community health nursing"[MeSH Terms] OR community health nursing [Text Word])

#25 "community health nursing"[All Fields]

#26 health visit* NOT jrid3991[JOURNAL]

((((health visit [All Fields] OR health visiting [All Fields]) OR health visitor[All Fields]) OR health visitors[All Fields]) NOT jrid3991[JOURNAL]) (ie NOT Health Visitor [journal])

#27 caregivers

("caregivers"[MeSH Terms] OR caregivers [Text Word])

# 28 caregiver[Text Word]

#29 patient discharge

("patient discharge"[MeSH Terms] OR patient discharge [Text Word])

#30 "hospital discharge"[All Fields]

#31 "discharge planning"

("planned discharge" not found as a phrase)

#32 discharge plan*

((((discharge planing[All Fields] OR discharge planner[All Fields]) OR discharge planners[All Fields]) OR discharge planning[All Fields]) OR discharge plans[All Fields])

#33 "outpatients"[MeSH Terms]

#34 outpatient*

# 35 "Outpatient Clinics, Hospital"[MESH]

(This MeSH term is exploded and therefore also includes the MeSH term "Pain clinics")

#36 "Community Health Centers"[MESH]

#37 outpatient clinic*

#38 outpatient department*

#39 "home care services"[MESH]

#40 home car*

((home care [All Fields] OR home cared[All Fields]) OR home caring[All Fields])

#41 "hospital at home"

#42 "community care"

#43 community service*

(community service[All Fields] OR community services[All Fields])

#44 "ambulatory care"[MESH]

#45 "secondary prevention"[All Fields]

#46 home visit*

((((((home visit [All Fields] OR home visitation [All Fields]) OR home visited[All Fields]) OR home visiting[All Fields]) OR home visitor[All Fields]) OR home visitors[All Fields]) OR home visits[All Fields])

#47 home assess*

(home assessed[All Fields] OR home assessment[All Fields])

#48 "house calls"[MESH]

#49 house call* 1275

(((((house call[All Fields] OR house calls[All Fields]) OR house calls/economics[All Fields]) OR house calls/standards[All Fields]) OR house calls/trends[All Fields]) OR house calls/utilization[All Fields])

#50 "Patient Education"[MESH]

#51 patient teach*

((patient teacher [All Fields] OR patient teachers[All Fields]) OR patient teaching[All Fields])

#52 "Patient Care Planning"[MESH]

#53 patient counsel*

((((patient counselled [All Fields] OR patient counselling [All Fields]) OR patient counselled[All Fields]) OR patient counsellor [All Fields]) OR patient counsellors [All Fields])

#54 "Primary Health Care"[MESH]

#54 "primary care"[All Fields]

COPD concept

#12 (Search #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11)

Nursing concept

(#13 OR #14 OR #15 OR #16 OR #17 OR #18 OR #19 OR #20 OR #21 OR #22 OR #23 OR #24 OR #25)

Health / home concept

(#26 OR #27 OR #28 OR #29 OR #30 OR #31 OR #32 OR #33 OR #34 OR #35 OR #36 OR #37 OR #38 OR #39 OR #40 OR #41 OR #42 OR #43 OR #44 OR #45 OR #46 OR #47 OR #48 OR #49 OR #50 OR #51 OR #52 OR #53 OR #54)

COPD + nursing concepts

COPD + Health / home concepts

COPD + nursing OR Health / home concept

 

Appendix 2 Table of ongoing RCTs

Author,

name of study (abbreviated),

source

Study design,

country

Intervention

Comment

Griffiths,

Multidisciplinary support for patients with COPD following hospital discharge

Source: NRR

RCT,

two centres,

UK

Home support visits for 2 months at discharge following an acute exacerbation of COPD versus usual care.

Report in

Preparation or awaiting publication.

Kloosterziel,

The respiratory nurse as disease specific nurse for patients with COPD

Source: Personal communication

RCT,

The

Netherlands

Respiratory nurse clinic versus pulmonologist clinic

Due to be completed end 2004/ early

2005.

Vrijhoef

Specialist nurse led clinics

 

Source: Personal communication

RCT,

The

Netherlands

Specialist-nurse led clinics versus respiratory consultant clinics in secondary care.

Report in

preparation or awaiting publication.

Rossdale

Home based

rehabilitation study of

patients with COPD

Source: NRR

RCT,

UK

Trial of home support and education by nurses and physiotherapists following discharge from hospital.

Report in

preparation or awaiting publication.

Prigmore,

Individualised self management plans for COPD

 

Source: NRR

RCT,

UK

Patients attending nurse-led clinic. Trial of education and prescription for drugs to be kept at home versus usual care.

Due to be completed end 2004.

NRR = National Research Register

Appendix 3: Methodological quality assessment of the included RCTs based on published reports (quality criteria adapted from Verhagen [14]† and Jadad [15]).

 

Was a method of randomisation performed ?

Allocation

concealment

?

Eligibility

criteria specified?

Baseline

similarity?

Outcome

assessor

blinded?

Withdrawals and dropouts

described?*

Intention-to- treat analysis performed?

Point estimate and variability for primary outcomes?

levels of evidence score [16]

(see text)

Bergner 1988

U

U

Y

Y

U

N

Y

Y

2b

Cockcroft 1987

U

U

Y

Y

U

Y

U

N

2b

Egan

2002

Y

U

Y

N

U

N

U

N

2b

Farrero 2000

U

Y

Y

Y

U

Y

U

N

2b

Hermiz 2002

U

U

Y

Y

U

Y

U

N

2b

Littlejohns 1991

Y

Y

Y

Y

U

Y

U

N

1b-

Smith

1999

Y

U

Y

Y

U

Y

Y

N

2b

Bourbeau 2003

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

1b-

Monninkhof 2003

U

Y

Y

Y

U

Y

N

Y

1b-

N=NO, U=Unclear, Y=Yes, † we operationalised the Delphi list following advice from the author (Verhagen: personal communication), *item from Jadad Score only.


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