Table 1 PICO-model indicating the inclusion and exclusion criteria of this study
Population | NH patients and their relatives. |
|---|---|
Intervention | Liver Pool Care Pathway |
Comparison | All studies using standard care group comparison, before/after comparison, as well as studies without standard means of comparisons were included. |
Outcome | All outcomes both qualitative and quantitative were included. |
Exclusion criteria | Studies only including home-dwelling and hospital patients |
Studies only including specific diagnoses (e.g., heart failure, cancer) | |
Studies only using chart based interventions where patients/relatives are left on their own (e.g., advance directives without conversations). | |
Studies that only focused on treatment limits (e.g., DNR, DNH). Publications such as case studies, chronicles, guidelines, protocols, unsystematic reviews and legal documents. | |
Publications in in other languages than English and Scandinavian. | |
Publications without abstracts. |