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37 All four studies had relatively small sample sizes and differed greatly in prescribing outcome measures.

We managed this issue by reporting differences in favour of CDSSs on at least one prescribing outcome and significant differences on the majority of prescribing outcomes.

Overall, 36 studies demonstrated at least one positive prescribing outcome in favour of CDSSs, and 19 reported significant improvements on the majority of outcomes.

The sensitivity analyses for the main reconsultation outcome and the antibiotic prescribing outcome did not result in any meaningful changes to the results (that is, there were no significant intervention effects in the sensitivity analyses for the reconsultation outcome and similar significant effects for all analyses with the antibiotic prescribing outcome).

For evaluating the impact of the intervention, a set of potential prescribing outcome measures had previously been validated using consensus methods 5 but an outstanding question was which of these measures could plausibly be improved by this intervention and therefore used as trial outcome measures.

We summarised studies in the manuscript by reporting whether they demonstrated at least one positive prescribing outcome (general trend in favour of CDSS) and statistically significant improvements in favour of CDSS on the majority (≥ 50%) of prescribing outcomes (as used by Garg and colleagues [ 1]).

Additional File 2 and Additional File 3 detail results for four summary measures: at least one outcome in favour of CDSS; majority of prescribing outcomes in favour of CDSS; at least one statistically significant prescribing outcome; and statistically significant improvement on the majority of prescribing outcomes.

Limited studies have investigated associations between pharmaceutical service provision, prescribing outcomes, and functional outcomes in older adults (Table 3).

Studies that randomize individual patients assess prescribing outcomes in single consultations, and so do not assess maintenance of new skills.

Cardiovascular disease was the most studied clinical target but few studies demonstrated significant improvements on the majority of prescribing outcomes.

Furthermore, only a few scales have been used in randomized controlled trials to determine prescribing outcomes in older adults.