Systematic review on barriers and enablers for access to diabetic retinopathy screening services in different income settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) can lead to visual impairment and blindness if not detected and treated in time. Knowing the barriers/enablers in advance in contrasting different country income settings may accelerate development of a successful DR screening (DRS) program. This would be especially applicable in the low-income settings with the rising prevalence of DR.

Objectives

The aim of this systematic review is to identify and contrast the barriers/enablers to DRS for different contexts using both consumers i.e., people with diabetes (PwDM) and provider perspectives and system level factors in different country income settings.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE, Embase, CENTRAL in the Cochrane Library from the databases start date to December 2018. We included the

SUBMITTER: Piyasena MMPN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478270 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature