Supporting information
Table S1 Full Medline search strategy
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Exp Self care/
Exp Communication/
Exp Professional Family Relations/
Exp Telephone/
Exp Professional Patient Relations/
Exp Health education/
Exp Attitude of health personnel/
Exp Cellular phone/
Exp Patient education as topic/
Exp Handheld computer/
Exp Self efficacy/
Exp Activities of Daily Living/
Exp Self help devices/
Exp Community health services/
Exp Rehabilitation/
(Self ADJ2 (car* or manag* or help or admistrat* or monitor* or medicat*)) or self-car* or selfmanag* or self-help or self-adminisrat* or self-monitor* or self-medicat* or selfcar* or
selfmanagement or selfhelp or selfadministrat* or selfmonitor* or selfmedicat* or SM.ti/ab.
Responsib* or Autonom*.ti/ab.
Manag* or copes or coping.ti/ab.
“Disease management”.ti/ab.
“expert patient”.ti/ab.
(professional or clinician) ADJ2 development.ti/ab.
Educat* or training or skill* or knowledge.ti/ab.
Confidence or self-efficacy.ti/ab.
(Access* or provi*) ADJ3 (information or records or results).ti/ab.
Monitor* or self-monitor* or selfmonitor*.ti/ab.
((patient or individual* or person* or client*) ADJ3 (remind* or feedback)).ti/ab.
(Tele ADJ2 (health or medicine or care)) or tele-health or tele-medicine or tele-care or telehealth or
telemedicine or telecare.ti/ab.
“Short message service” or SMS or “mobile phone” or “text message*”.ti/ab.
(home or environment* or living or assistive) ADJ2 (adaptation or modif* or equipment or
technolog*).ti/ab.
“Care plan*”.ti/ab.
“Action plan*”.ti/ab.
Hypno* ADJ1 (self or home)ti/ab.
(cognitive or psychological or interpersonal or relaxation or biofeedback) ADJ3 (therap* or
intervention* or program*).ti/ab
CBT.ti/ab.
Psychoeducation*.ti/ab.
(Peer or patient or emotional or social or psychosocial) ADJ1 (support or group) .ti/ab.
Financial ADJ1 control.ti/ab.
“personal health budget*”.ti/ab.
(Financial or monetary or payment* or discount or service*) ADJ5 incentiv*.ti/ab.
Exercise or training or rehabilitati*.ti/ab.
(Lifestyle or occupational) ADJ1 (intervention* or modification* or therapy) .ti/ab.
“Speech and language therapy”.ti/ab.
Or/1-42
Stroke/
Brain ischemia/
(Stroke or poststroke or post-stroke or cerebrovascu* or “brain vasc*” or “cerebral vasc*” or cva* or
apoplexy* or sah) .ti/ab.
((brain* or Cerebr* OR vascular OR cerebell* or intracran* or intracerebral* or subarachnoid) ADJ1
(accident OR isch?mi* OR infarct* or thrombo* or emboli* or occlus* or h?morrhage or h?matoma*
or bleed*)).ti/ab.
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Or/44-47
meta-analysis/
meta analysis as topic/
Review literature as topic/
MEDLINE.ti/ab.
(systematic review* or meta-analy* or metaanaly* or "research synthesis" or literature review) .ti/ab.
systematic ADJ3 literature.ti/ab.
data ADJ2 extract*.ti/ab.
((information or data) ADJ3 synthesis).ti/ab.
Cochrane.ti/ab.
(qualitative or narrative or thematic or evidence or realist or interpret* or induct* or refutational or
framework or systematic or textual) adj2 (approach or review* or synthes* or meta-summary or “meta
summary” or summary).ti/ab.
Meta adj1 (summary or narrative or synthesis or ethnograph* or study or data or interpretation or
aggregation or needs-assessment or “needs assessment”).ti/ab.
meta-summary or meta-narrative or meta-synthesis or meta-ethnograph* or meta-study or meta-dataanalysis or meta-data-synthesis or meta-interpretation or meta-aggregation
“reciprocal translational analysis”.ti/ab.
RTA.ti/ab.
“lines-of-argu?ment synthesis” or “lines of argu?ment synthesis”.ti/ab.
“LOA synthesis”.ti/ab.
“grounded formal theory”.ti/ab.
“grounded theory synthesis”.ti/ab.
ecological adj2 (triangulation or sentence or synthesis).ti/ab.
Phenomenography.ti/ab.
((mixed or multi* or cross) adj1 (method* or design* or research or strategy)) adj2 (synthesis or
review).ti/ab.
(mixed-method* or multi-method* or mixed-design or multi-design or multiple-methods or multistrategy or cross-design) adj2 (synthesis or review).ti/ab.
“research synthesis”.ti/ab.
Data ADJ2 extract*.ti/ab.
((information or data) ADJ3 synthesis).ti/ab.
Bayesian adj1 (meta-analysis or “meta analysis”).ti/ab.
“case survey”.ti/ab.
“qualitative comparative analysis”.ti/ab.
Or/49-76
letter.pt
comment.pt
editorial.pt
Or/78-80
77 not 81
43 and 48 and 82
NB Search strategy for systematic reviews of RCTs was combined with a concurrent search of systematic
reviews of qualitative work
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