Reducing physical restraints by older adults in home care: development of an evidence-based guideline

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Overview of articles by clinical question, setting and quality appraisal

Author	Setting	Type	Clinical Practice Question Addressed	Quality appraisal
Author	Setting	Type	Clinical Practice Question Addressed	AMSTAR^a	VAKS^b	MINORS^c
Beerens et al., 2014 [2]	HC	Survey	1			10/10
de Veer et al., 2009 [13]	HC	Survey	1			9/10
Evans and FitzGerald, 2002 [40]	Res	Review	2	6/10
Evans and Cotter, 2008 [39]	HC	Paper	5, 6	NA	NA	NA
Evans et al., 2003 [46]	Res	Review	3	4.5/10
Gastmans and Milisen, 2006 [14]	Res	Paper	1,2, 4–6	NA	NA	NA
Gastmans and Vanlaere, 2005 [43]	Res	Book	2–4	NA	NA	NA
Goethals et al., 2012 [15]	Res	Review	2–4	6/10
Goethals et al., 2013 [35]	Res	Qualitative study	4		14.6
Hamers and Huizing, 2005 [41]	HC, Res	Paper	1–3	NA	NA	NA
Hellwig, 2000 [42]	HC	Paper	1, 3, 5, 6	NA	NA	NA
Hofmann and Hahn, 2014 [12]	Res	Review	1–3	6/10
Köpke et al., 2012 [51]	Res	RCT	5, 6			10/10
Kurata and Ojima, 2014 [48]	HC	Survey	1			9/10
Lane and Harrington, 2011 [49]	Res	Review	1	5/10
Möhler et al., 2012 [52]	Res, HC	Review	1, 5, 6	7/10
Möhler et al., 2014 [19]	Res	Review	1, 3, 4	7/10
Scheepmans et al., 2014 [10]	HC	Qualitative study	1		15

NA not applicable, HC home care, Res residential
^aShea et al., 2007. AMSTAR is a validated instrument and consists of 11 items with 4 answer possibilities [31]
^bThe assessment tool VAKS consists of 30 questions related to 5 criteria (i.e. formal requirements, credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability). Based on the total score an article is ‘recommended’ (≥ 15), ‘recommended with reservations’ (≥ 10 < 15) or ‘not recommended’ (< 10) [29]
^cThe MINORS consists of 12 items, the first 8 items are for non-comparable studies. The scores for the individual items can be 0 (not reported), 1 (reported but inadequate) or 2 (reported and adequate) [30]

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