A systematic review of epidemiological papers was conducted using PubMed.
A comprehensive review of 367 papers was conducted to evaluate masting phenology, seed storage and seed dispersal distances across important tropical timber tree families.
A bibliometric analysis of the selected sample papers was conducted to identify key publications that triggered related research and to evaluate the degree of connectedness of qualitative and quantitative SSCM research on stakeholder triggers and SSCM risks.
Descriptive analysis of the contents of all included papers was conducted per category (thematic coding).
A reference search of all eligible papers was conducted to identify additional literature.
To confirm or refute the association, a meta-analysis of published papers was conducted.
In this paper, a comprehensive review of the approaches proposed and used by authors of many papers is conducted.
In addition to this search strategy, hand-searches of reference lists in relevant papers were conducted.
While all studies described in the included papers were conducted within a primary healthcare setting, the majority focused on the provision of care for diabetes [ 24, 26, 28– 32, 36– 37, 39, 37, 39, 40, 42, 45, 47, 49, 53– 55, 60, 61].
Searches of five online databases (PsycINFO, CINAHL, Cochrane Database, MEDLINE, Embase), hand searching of grey literature, and both forward and backward snowballing of key papers were conducted and completed on 12 December 2014.
The remaining papers were conducted in: Sweden, Cyprus, Israel, Belgium, Japan, Greece, and Iceland (one study each); Hong Kong, Hungary, South Korea, Norway, and France (two); Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, and Australia (three); Switzerland, Estonia, and Canada (four); and Portugal (five).
