Effects of integrated models of care for diabetes and hypertension in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effects of integrated models of care for people with multimorbidity including at least diabetes or hypertension in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) on health and process outcomes.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, LILACS, Africa-Wide, CINAHL and Web of Science up to 12 December 2019.

Eligibility criteria

We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs), non-RCTs, controlled before-and-after studies and interrupted time series (ITS) studies of people with diabetes and/or hypertension plus any other disease, in LMICs; assessing the effects of integrated care.

Data extraction and synthesis

Two authors independently screened retrieved recor

SUBMITTER: Rohwer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8276295 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature