Setting |
Hospital | 59 (56) |
Outpatient | 35 (33) |
Long-term care | 9 (9) |
Other | 3 (3) |
Don't know | 0 (0) |
Evaluation target |
Change package | 101 (95) |
Change method | 2 (2) |
Both | 1 (1) |
Other | 0 (0) |
Don't know | 2 (2) |
Evaluation design |
No comparison group/don't know | 82 (77) |
Randomly assigned comparison group | 12 (11) |
Non-randomly assigned comparison group | 12 (11) |
Researcher involvement in authorship |
Professor | 11 (10) |
PhD | 26 (25) |
Master's trained | 26 (25) |
Other | 0 (0) |
No/don't know | 43 (41) |
Results |
Reported as showing improvement | 88 (83) |
Reported as equivocal | 11 (10) |
Reported as NOT showing improvement | 6 (6) |
No/don't know | 1 (1) |
Journal type |
Quality improvement/health services research | 38 (36) |
Clinical | 68 (64) |
General | 10 (9) |
Nursing | 17 (16) |
Other specialty | 41 (39) |