Country | Methodological approach | Technique | Analysis | Quality assessment | Participants | Number (only physicians or patients) | Sex | |
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Howitt et al. 1999 [28] | United Kingdom | Mixed: quantitative and qualitative | Structured interviews (information through email) | Thematic analysis (information through email) | moderate | -Patients | 56 | 28 men/28 women (information through email) |
Fuller et al. 2004 [32] | United Kingdom | Mixed: quantitative and qualitative | Questionnaire and interviews | Content analysis | moderate | -Patients | 76 (in the interviews) | |
Wild et al. 2004 [33] | United States,, United Kingdom and Spain | Qualitative | Semi-structured interview | Interpretative. Thematic analysis. | moderate | -Patients | 60 | |
Coelho Dantas et al.2004 [35] | Canada | Qualitative | Semi-structured Interview. | Interpretative. Thematic analysis (information through email). Grounded theory. | excellent | -Patients | 21 | 12 men/9 women |
Australia | Qualitative: Phenomenology | Focus groups | Thematic analysis | excellent | -Physicians | 20 | 12 men/8 women | |
[Geriatricians, Cardiologists, General medicine (consultants or registrars),General Practice] -Nurses -Pharmacist | (6 Geriatric 6 Cardiologists/General Medicine 8 General Practice) | |||||||
-Patients | 14 | |||||||
-Carers | ||||||||
Solà et al. 2009 [37] | Spain | Mixed: quantitative and qualitative | Focus groups | Content analysis | excellent | Physicians [General Practice, Cardiologists and Internal Medicine] | 23 (15 General Practice, 5 Cardiologist, 3 Internal Medicine) | 12 men/11 women |
Patients | 23 | 15 men/8 women | ||||||
Lipman et al. 2004 [29] | United Kingdom | Qualitative | Semi-structured Interview. | Framework method | excellent | -Physicians [General Practices with an active interest in research or evidence-based medicine] | 11 | 9 men/2 women |
Anderson et al. 2006 [34] | United Kingdom | Mixed: quantitative and qualitative | Questionnaire and semi-structured interview | Interpretative. Grounded theory. | moderate | -Physicians | 14 | |
[Cardiologists, Geriatric or general medicine (consultants or Specialist Registrars)] | 5 Cardiologists, 9 Geriatric or General medicine | |||||||
Decker et al. 2012 [36] | United States | Qualitative | Semi-structured Interview. | Content analysis | moderate | -Physicians [Cardiologists and internal medicine) -Nurses practioner | 23 (18 Cardiologist 5 Internal Medicine) |