First Steps towards Evidence-Based Preventive Home Visits: Experiences Gathered in a Swedish Municipality

Table 1

Project description.

Project part	Method approach	Participants
Identifying the evidence base
(i) Literature review	Exploratory approach	First and second author
(ii) Group discussions	With inspiration from focus group interview methodology	12 older people, first author
(iii) Previous experiences in study district	Descriptive	First and second author, municipality employees
(iv) Seminar	Discussion	External consult, research team
Construction of the PHV protocol
(i) Group discussions on regular basis	Iterative process	Research team, municipality employees
		Advisory boards, external expert
(ii) Education and training		Second author, municipality employees
Pilot study	Empirical	16 older people, first and second author, municipality employees