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CG123 Common mental health disorders - National Institute for ...

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Access to <strong>health</strong>care4.4 SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS AND INTERVENTIONSSPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO PROMOTE ACCESS4.4.1 IntroductionThe alternative approach to improving access to <strong>health</strong>care <strong>for</strong> target groups is tospecifically develop novel methods of engaging individuals and delivering therapy.4.4.2 Clinical review protocolThe review aimed to per<strong>for</strong>m a narrative synthesis of the evidence relating to services,and the development of services that are focused on community outreach and engagement,with the aim of improving access to <strong>health</strong>care <strong>for</strong> hard-to-reach groups (<strong>for</strong>example, BME groups and older people). The review protocol including the reviewquestion, in<strong>for</strong>mation about databases searched and the eligibility criteria used in thissection of the guideline can be found in Table 10. A search <strong>for</strong> systematic reviewspublished since 1995 was conducted. The GDG decided that systematic reviewsconducted be<strong>for</strong>e 1995 would not be useful in evaluating access to <strong>health</strong>care, there<strong>for</strong>ethese were excluded. Furthermore, due to the large volume of literature retrievedfrom the search, the GDG decided to evaluate papers from the last 7 years alone. TheGDG conducted an additional search <strong>for</strong> RCTs published between 2004 and 2010with the aim of identifying studies that may not have been captured by the includedsystematic reviews (searching <strong>for</strong> RCTs published in the last 6 years would identifythe studies included in the majority of systematic reviews). Further in<strong>for</strong>mation aboutthe rationale <strong>for</strong> the method employed here can be found in Chapter 3 and the searchstrategy can be found in Appendix 6. The evidence was grouped according to thesubquestions reflecting the content of the reviews. The three groups were individual-/practitioner-level interventions, system-level interventions and treatment-level interventionsthat aim to increase access or facilitate uptake of treatment.Individual-/practitioner-level interventions aim to change the behaviour of the <strong>health</strong>careprofessional or individual. System-level interventions refer to policies, organisationaland structural factors or communication methods. Treatment-level interventionsrefer to the provision of new or adapted treatments that aim to increase access.4.4.3 Studies considered 7The literature search <strong>for</strong> systematic reviews and RCTs yielded 7,534 papers 6 . Ofthese, six systematic reviews (ANDERSON2003 [Anderson et al., 2003];6 The search strategy involved a general search covering all review questions addressed in this chapter.7 Here and elsewhere in the guideline, each study considered <strong>for</strong> review is referred to by a study ID in capitalletters (primary author and date of study publication, except where a study is in press or has beensubmitted <strong>for</strong> publication, then a date is not used).76

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