Patient Follow-up After Orthopaedic Outreach Trips - Do We Know Whether Patients are Improving?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of traumatic musculoskeletal injuries falls greatest on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To help address this burden, organizations host over 6,000 outreach trips annually, 20% of which are orthopaedic. Monitoring post-surgical outcomes is critical to ensuring care quality; however, the implementation of such monitoring is unknown. The purpose of this review is to identify published follow-up practices of short-term orthopaedic surgery outreach trips to LMICs.

Methods

We completed a systematic review of Pubmed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and ProQuest following PRISMA guidelines. Follow-up method, rate, duration, and types of outcomes measured along with barriers to follow-up were collected and reported.

Results

The initial search yielded 1,

SUBMITTER: Leversedge C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9436850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature