Klinische und medizinische Fallberichte

An Evaluation of Co-located Outpatient Services in Patient Care Practice Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Abstract

Edward Smith

The co-location of specialists in primary care has been suggested as a tactic to lower costs, inefficiencies, and fragmentation of treatment. In order to evaluate the effects of co-located speciality care models in primary care settings, a systematic review and meta-analysis were carried out. Methods: Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Scopus were all searched during the month of February 2015. The bibliographies of the included studies were manually searched. The following outcomes in physically adjacent primary care specialties were included in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies: patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction, health care access and use, clinical outcomes, and costs.