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Table 6 Effect sizes of primary outcomes of reviews (95% Confidence Intervals)

From: A meta-review of evidence on heart failure disease management programs: the challenges of describing and synthesizing evidence on complex interventions

Review (reference number)

All cause mortality

All cause re-hospitalization

HF-related hospitalization

Koshman et al. [35]

OR 0.84 (0.61-1.15)

OR 0.71 (0.54-0.94)

OR 0.69 (0.51-0.94)

Clark et al. [25]

RR 0.80 (0.69-0.92)

RR 0.95 (0.89-1.02)

RR 0.79 (0.69-0.89)

Gohler et al. [32]

RD 0.03 (0.01-0.05)

RD 0.08 (0.05-0.11)

NA

Jovicic et al. [24]

OR 0.93 (0.57-1.51)

OR 0.59 (0.44-0.80)

OR 0.44 (0.27-0.71)

Holland et al. [34]

RR 0.79 (0.69-0.92)

RR 0.84 (0.79-0.95)

RR 0.70 (0.61-0.81)

Kim & Soeken [23]

NA

OR 0.87 (0.69-1.04)

NA

Phillips et al. [31]

RR 0.80 (0.57-1.13)

RR 0.91 (0.72-1.16)

NA

Roccaforte et al. [28]

OR 0.80 (0.69-0.93)

OR 0.76 (0.69-0.94)

OR 0.58 (0.50-0.67)

Taylor et al. [27]

OR 0.86 (0.67-1.10)

NA

OR 0.52 (0.39-0.70)

Whellan et al. [36]

NA

NA

NA

Gonseth et al. [37]

RR 0.75 (0.59-0.96)

RR 0.88 (0.79-0.97)

RR 0.70 (0.62-0.79)

Gwadry-Sridhar et al. [33]

RR 0.98 (0.72-1.34)

RR 0.79 (0.68-0.91)

NA

McAlister et al. [30]

RR 0.83 (0.70-0.99)

RR 0.84 (0.75-0.93)

RR 0.73 (0.66-0.82)

Phillips et al. [29]

RR 0.87(0.73-1.03)

RR 0.75 (0.64-0.88)

RR 0.65 (0.54-0.79)

McAlister et al. [26]

RR 0.94 (0.75-1.19)

RR 0.87 (0.79-0.96)

NA

  1. RR: Risk Ratio; RD: Risk Difference; OR: Odds Ratio