Effectiveness of group medical visits for improving diabetes care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Group medical visits, whereby health care professionals meet with groups of patients who have the same disease, have been introduced in primary care as a way to meet the increasing demand for health care delivery to patients with chronic diseases. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on the effectiveness of such visits for patients with diabetes.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of all relevant studies published from 1947 to February 2012 identified in a search of electronic databases and grey literature. We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies published in English that included patients aged 16-80 years with type 1 or 2 diabetes and that had group medical visits as the intervention. These stu

SUBMITTER: Housden L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3778483 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature