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Background: There are several treatments to cure type 2 diabetes (T2D) and every one of them has certain attributes which is lead patients and specialists to have different preferences and select power. Therefore, we did this systematic study to evaluate patients̓ and physicians̓ preferences for type 2 diabetes medications by extracting attributes of anti-diabetic medications and identifying their relative importance. Methods: We searched the PubMed, Ovid, Web of science, Scopus and Embase databases for articles which have been published on or before May 8th, 2018(The start time of the search in our study was May 8th, 2018). Results: The searches identified 3346 studies, of which 17 (from 2009 to 2017) were included in the final synthesis and 27 attributes of type 2 anti-diabetic have been investigated. The most important attributes are changes of blood glucose and HbA1c level, hypoglycemia events, weight changes, gastrointestinal complications, cardiovascular effects, medicines cost, and administration mode and dosage of medicines. Conclusion: physicians and patients prefer antidiabetics which is reduce blood glucose and HbA1c level effectively and have low side effects too (hypoglycemic event, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal). The effect of weight reduction, low cost, low dosing and low frequency of using. Health care providers, Specialist, and manufacturers should consider to these attributes in treatment process and marketing. It can increase adherence to management approaches, and reduce morbidity of patients with type 2 diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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