Los efectos en la salud y el costo de la sustitución de la atención domiciliaria de atención hospitalaria aguda: una revisión de la evidencia

CRD COMMENTARY:

This is a limited systematic review. The authors have stated their research question and some inclusion and exclusion criteria. The literature search was limited in its detail and did not state whether there were any language restrictions. It is possible therefore that additional studies may have been missed. The authors do report who, and how many of the authors, performed the selection of studies and the data extraction from the included studies. In addition, data from the included studies were not reported in the review but there was an assessment of validity.
The study data were reported separately and there was no attempt to synthesise the data. There was also no discussion of the effects of differences between the included studies.
The authors conclusions appear to follow from the results but these should be viewed with caution because of the missing data and methodological limitations in the process of the review.