Task shifting interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate evidence from published randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the use of task-shifting strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Design

Systematic review of RCTs that utilised a task-shifting strategy in the management of CVD in LMICs.

Data sources

We searched the following databases for relevant RCTs: PubMed from the 1940s, EMBASE from 1974, Global Health from 1910, Ovid Health Star from 1966, Web of Knowledge from 1900, Scopus from 1823, CINAHL from 1937 and RCTs from ClinicalTrials.gov.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

We focused on RCTs published in English, but without publication year. We included RCTs in which the intervention used task shifting (non-phy

SUBMITTER: Ogedegbe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4202019 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature