Journal article
Interventions to increase attendance for diabetic retinopathy screening
JG Lawrenson, E Graham-Rowe, F Lorencatto, J Burr, C Bunce, JJ Francis, P Aluko, S Rice, L Vale, T Peto, J Presseau, N Ivers, JM Grimshaw
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | WILEY | Published : 2018
Abstract
Background: Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of diabetic retinopathy screening (DRS) in reducing the risk of sight loss, attendance for screening is consistently below recommended levels. Objectives: The primary objective of the review was to assess the effectiveness of quality improvement (QI) interventions that seek to increase attendance for DRS in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Secondary objectives were:To use validated taxonomies of QI intervention strategies and behaviour change techniques (BCTs) to code the description of interventions in the included studies and determine whether interventions that include particular QI strategies or component BCTs are more effe..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Internal sources National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR-HTA), UK. This review has been carried out as part of an evidence synthesis project funded by NIHR-HTA (Project reference Number 13/137/05). External sources National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), UK. This review is funded by the NIHR health technology assessment programme. Richard Wormald, Co-ordinating Editor for the Cochrane Eyes and Vision (CEV) acknowledges financial support for his CEV research sessions from the Department of Health through the award made by the National Institute for Health Research to Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology for a Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology. This review was supported by the National Institute for Health Research, via Cochrane Infrastructure funding to the CEV UK editorial base.