In this special issue devoted to AKI, the potential protective effects of diverse interventions were explored in five basic research studies.
The type, training, and experience of the clinicians who render these various interventions were also quite diverse.
The discussion above shows that current maternity interventions are diverse and do include BAME women although services are not always a specifically dedicated to their culturally distinct needs.
QI interventions are diverse and may address changes in care processes (eg, use of care managers) or strategies aiming to change provider behaviour (eg, electronic reminders), and the content (eg, avoiding catheter-related blood stream infections), and the means to achieve the goal (eg, audit and feedback) are often intertwined.
When generic quality improvement interventions are done in diverse populations, subgroup analyses that evaluate the effect of the interventions in racial/ethnic minority patients would increase our understanding the effect on equity of treatment.
LTCs are complex to manage due to the multiple physical, social and emotional problems they pose and a diverse range of service providers and interventions are involved in their management over long time lines.
In one of the first and few such assessments, Heppner et al. (1999) found that in violence prevention work with racially diverse groups of men, culturally relevant interventions are more effective than 'colourblind' ones.
Although this review focused on interventions based solely on exercise and targeting specifically community dwelling elderly people, the selected interventions are still quite diverse, in particular in terms of intervention components (type of exercises, intensity, frequency, mode of delivery, and total duration) and inclusion criteria for participants.
