Systematic review on the use of patient-held health records in low-income and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To review the available evidence on the benefit of patient-held health records (PHRs), other than maternal and child health records, for improving the availability of medical information for handover communication between healthcare providers (HCPs) and/or between HCPs and patients in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Methods

The literature searches were conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL databases for manuscripts without any restrictions on dates/language. Additionally, articles were located through citation checking using previous systematic reviews and a grey literature search by contacting experts, searching of the WHO website and Google Scholar.

Results

Six observational studies in four LMICs met the inclusion criteria. However, no studie

SUBMITTER: Joseph L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8413937 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature