Access to quality trauma care after injury in Pakistan: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To conduct a systematic review and narrative synthesis to identify barriers, facilitators and pre-existing interventions and describe the current status of initiatives/interventions aimed at improving access to quality trauma healthcare after injury in Pakistan.

Design

Systematic review and narrative synthesis DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Cochrane (Wiley), Scopus and ProQuest, as well as grey literature.

Eligibility criteria

Full-text peer-reviewed publications, including cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, case-control studies, randomised controlled trials and qualitative studies published in English from January 2013 to December 2023.

Data extraction and synthesis

Two independent reviewers

SUBMITTER: Atiq H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12699741 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature