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improvement activities undertaken in general practice and primary care

Appendix 4 Data extraction form

1. Name of reviewer performing data extraction

2. What country does the paper examine? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and/or Wales [ ] Multiple countries including non-UK and UK country(ies) [ ] Non-UK country(ies) [ ] Not applicable

3. Is it primary care? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer: [ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Partly

4. Is it health improvement? (defined in this project as primordial, primary, secondary or tertiary prevention, and also encompassing health promotion)

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer: [ ] Yes [ ] No

5. What is the health topic? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] Alcohol [ ] Arthritis [ ] Asthma [ ] Breastfeeding [ ] Cancer screening [ ] Cardiovascular disease [ ] Child health [ ] Contraception [ ] COPD [ ] Diabetes [ ] Diet/nutrition [ ] Drugs [ ] Exercise [ ] Falls [ ] Maternity care [ ] Mental health [ ] Obesity [ ] Older adult health [ ] Osteoporosis [ ] Sexual health [ ] Smoking [ ] Stroke [ ] Vaccination [ ] No specific health topic [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

6. What type of paper is it? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Research [ ] Service description with evaluative component [ ] Service description without evaluative component [ ] Review [ ] Opinion piece/commentary [ ] Other (please specify in box below) Other:

7. Is it related to service delivery or organisation? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer: [ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Partly

8. Based on the answers to questions 2–7 and your judgement, do you recommend including the paper, marking it as‘of interest’, or rejecting it?

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Include for evidence synthesis of approaches to delivery/

organisation of health improvement [ ] Include because tells us about health improvement activities undertaken in primary care [ ] Mark as a paper‘of interest’ [ ] Reject paper

If the recommendation is to reject the paper, the rest of the form does not have to be completed. If the paper is

‘of interest’, please complete parts of the form where possible. Please note useful information in the text box

‘Additional comments and notes’ at the end of the form if it doesn’t fit in any other boxes 9. Please describe the intervention (or service,

if it was not an intervention study) 10. How does the intervention relate to service

delivery or organisation?

If the paper is a review, for the rest of the questions please select all answers that apply (e.g. if randomised controlled trials and controlled before/after studies were included in the review, please select both)

11. Was it a pilot/feasibility study? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer: [ ] Yes [ ] No

12. What was the study design(s)? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] Randomised controlled trial– individual [ ] Randomised controlled trial– cluster [ ] Controlled before/after study/non-randomised controlled trial [ ] Uncontrolled before/after study [ ] Interrupted time series study [ ] Economic evaluation [ ] Cross-sectional study/survey [ ] Cohort study [ ] Case–control study [ ] Qualitative study [ ] Case study [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

13. If it was a qualitative study, what type of study was it?

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] Focus group(s) [ ] Brief interview [ ] Extended interview [ ] Semi-structured interview [ ] Observation (passive/participant) [ ] Description of intervention [ ] Document analysis [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

14. What was the purpose of the study? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] Evaluation of practitioner role [ ] Evaluation of service delivery or organisation [ ] Evaluation/exploration of practitioner knowledge [ ] Evaluation of intervention [ ] Exploration of practitioner views or experiences [ ] Exploration of patient views or experiences

[ ] Exploration of parent views or experiences [ ] Practitioner education programme [ ] Exploration of patient decision-making [ ] Description of intervention [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

15. What outcomes were measured? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] Changes in attendance to a service [ ] Hospital admissions [ ] Patient clinical outcomes [ ] Presence/absence of target disease [ ] Practitioner behaviour [ ] Practitioner knowledge/opinion [ ] Patient behaviour/decision [ ] Patient knowledge/opinion [ ] Identify barriers to care [ ] Cost effectiveness [ ] Not applicable [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

16. Where was the service delivered? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] General practice [ ] School [ ] Pharmacy [ ] Home [ ] Other

community [ ] Other non-clinical setting [ ] Other clinical setting [ ] Not clear/not specified

Please provide further details of the service delivery location, if of interest:

17. Who provided the service? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] GP [ ] Practice nurse [ ] Community nurse/practitioner [ ] School nurse [ ] Health visitor [ ] Midwife [ ] Pharmacist [ ] Not clear/not specified [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

18. What was the population targeted? Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of one or more answers:

[ ] Older people [ ] Adults [ ] Children [ ] Adolescents [ ] Patients with

‘lifestyle’ risk factors [ ] Patients with other risk factors [ ] Patients with a specific disease [ ] All patients [ ] Mothers/parents [ ] Other (please specify in box below)

Other:

19. Please provide a summary of the results and conclusions

Quality assessment Please assess the paper according to whether you have major, minor, or no concerns with the following five quality criteria, and then complete question 25. If the paper is a review please complete questions 25 and 26

20. Quality of the sampling process (including sample size)

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Major concern [ ] Minor concern [ ] No concerns [ ] Not possible to assess [ ] Not applicable

21. Appropriateness of the analysis Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Major concern [ ] Minor concern [ ] No concerns [ ] Not possible to assess [ ] Not applicable

22. Comparability of the intervention and comparison groups (risk of selection bias, including bias with loss to follow up)

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Major concern [ ] Minor concern [ ] No concerns [ ] Not possible to assess [ ] Not applicable

23. Quality of the intervention delivery (was there risk of contamination? Was consistency of the intervention measured?)

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Major concern [ ] Minor concern [ ] No concerns [ ] Not possible to assess [ ] Not applicable

24. Outcome assessment (risk of measurement bias)

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer:

[ ] Major concern [ ] Minor concern [ ] No concerns [ ] Not possible to assess [ ] Not applicable

25. Please rate the quality of the paper as A, B, C or D according to the following guidelines: A:

no major or minor concerns. B: no major concerns but one or more minor concerns. C:

one or more major concerns. D: reject paper due to major concerns or other quality issue(s)

Please mark‘X’ within the square brackets of only one answer: [ ] A [ ] B [ ] C [ ] D

26. If the paper is a review (or a study design for which several of the quality criteria above are not applicable) and you have major or minor concerns about its quality, please state your concerns

27. Additional comments and notes