Quality improvement strategies at primary care level to reduce inequalities in diabetes care: an equity-oriented systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is evidence that disparities exist in diabetes prevalence, access to diabetes care, diabetes-related complications, and the quality of diabetes care. A wide range of interventions has been implemented and evaluated to improve diabetes care. We aimed to review trials of quality improvement (QI) interventions aimed to reduce health inequities among people with diabetes in primary care and to explore the extent to which experimental studies addressed and reported equity issues.

Methods

Pubmed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library were searched to identify randomized controlled studies published between January 2005 and May 2016. We adopted the PROGRESS Plus framework, as a tool to explore differential effects of QI interventions across sociodemographic and

SUBMITTER: Terens N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975519 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature