Category of outcome | Outcome | No. of studies reporting outcome | No. of studies showing improvement in outcome | References to studies showing improvement (Additional file 1: Appendix 3) |
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Service use | Unplanned hospital admissions | 15 | 0b | A7b |
Patient experience | Quality of lifea | 15 | 1 | A12 |
Number of medications | 13 | 7 | A3, A8, A11, A12, A24, A25, A27 | |
Medication adherence | 9 | 3 | A3, A10, A13 | |
Safety | Drug-related problems | 11 | 4 | A10, A17, A22, A23 |
Cognitive function | 4 | 1 | A22 | |
Number of falls | 4 | 1 | A26 | |
Mortality | Mortality | 8 | 0 | ā |
Cost | Medication cost reduction | 6 | 3 | A8, A24, A27 |
Efficacy | Efficacy | 2 | 1 | A25 |