Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
From: Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia – a systematic review
CRITERIA | INCLUSION | EXCLUSION |
|---|---|---|
Time period | • 1993–2005 | |
Language | • English | |
Place of study | • Australia | |
Geographical delimitation | • Rural or remote | • No relevance to rural or remote |
Aspect of health care | • Comprehensive primary health care model or component thereof | • Secondary or tertiary health care (unless specifically articulated or supporting primary care) |
Objectives | ||
1. What structural and financial issues are addressed? | • Identifies or addresses some specific structural or financial aspect of primary health service provision | • Problem description (not based on any evidence or intervention) |
2. What are the barriers to and facilitators of success | • Identifies reasons for success or failure leading to models uptake or sustainability over time | • Descriptions of individual professional groups or activities (not models or systems) |
3. Characteristics of appropriate models | • Some primary or secondary evidence base underpins research or statement | |
4. Evidence-informed principles or guidelines | • Key structural and financial characteristics are explicitly identified, considered or evaluated | |
Other | • Clinical intervention or trial | |
• Education and training initiatives which do not inform a PHC service delivery model in a direct way. |