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Table 4 Certainty assessment (Scales)

From: Factors associated with the workload of health professionals in hospital at home: a systematic review

Nº of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other considerations

Effect

Certainty

ONI: [43] Vecchio

1

observational studies

seriousa,b

not serious

not serious

seriousc

none

ONI survey predict nursing and allied health resource requirements for home care services

Low

CHIRS: [31] Hays BJ, [36] Peters

2

observational studies

seriousa,b

not serious

not serious

seriousc

none

Workload increased with each increasing level of CHIRS rating

CHIRS explains variations on resource consumption

Low

Health Status Scale: [41] Ballard

1

observational studies

seriousd,e

not serious

seriousf

serious

all plausible residual confounding would reduce the demonstrated effect

The higher the Health Status Scale score, the greater the use of resources

Low

VNA-LA/USC HHPCS: [33] Churness

1

observational studies

very seriousa,g

not serious

not serious

seriousc

all plausible residual confounding would reduce the demonstrated effect

The is a relationship between total score and workload

Low

  1. a Convience sample
  2. b Single centre study
  3. c Precision of results not reported
  4. d Validity data of the measuring instrument not shown
  5. e Lack of sample size estimation
  6. f Very specific population. Generalization problems
  7. g Posible information bias