Quality Improvement for Cardiovascular Disease Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of global cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden falls on people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In order to reduce preventable CVD mortality and morbidity, LMIC health systems and health care providers need to improve the delivery and quality of CVD care.

Objectives

As part of the Disease Control Priorities Three (DCP3) Study efforts addressing quality improvement, we reviewed and summarized currently available evidence on interventions to improve quality of clinic-based CVD prevention and management in LMICs.

Methods

We conducted a narrative review of published comparative clinical trials that evaluated efficacy or effectiveness of clinic-based CVD prevention and management quality improvement interventions in LMICs. Conditio

SUBMITTER: Lee ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4907518 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature