Critical care service delivery across healthcare systems in low-income and low-middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review

Autor: Naeha Haridasa, Abdelouahab Bellou, Brandon Alexander Chaffay, Richard Lowsby, Sojung Yi, Srinivas Murthy, Amir Lotfy Rashed, Patrick McCarville, Teri A. Reynolds, P Andrew Stephens, Neill K. J. Adhikari, Carl Mickman, Allison Ferreira, Andrew George Lim, Nicole Benzoni, Nana Sefa, Emily S. Bartlett, Lia I. Losonczy, Enrico Dippenaar, Nebiyu Shukur, Bernadett Pua Velasco, Paul D Sonenthal, Adhiti Ghatak-Roy, Sean M Kivlehan, Marc Li Chuan L C Yang, Michael S Jaung, Caitlin A Contag
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 8 (2021)
BMJ Open
ISSN: 2044-6055
Popis: IntroductionCritical care in low-income and low-middle income countries (LLMICs) is an underdeveloped component of the healthcare system. Given the increasing growth in demand for critical care services in LLMICs, understanding the current capacity to provide critical care is imperative to inform policy on service expansion. Thus, our aim is to describe the provision of critical care in LLMICs with respect to patients, providers, location of care and services and interventions delivered.Methods and analysisWe will search PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science and EMBASE for full-text original research articles available in English describing critical care services that specify the location of service delivery and describe patients and interventions. We will restrict our review to populations from LLMICs (using 2016 World Bank classifications) and published from 1 January 2008 to 1 January 2020. Two-reviewer agreement will be required for both title/abstract and full text review stages, and rate of agreement will be calculated for each stage. We will extract data regarding the location of critical care service delivery, the training of the healthcare professionals providing services, and the illnesses treated according to classification by the WHO Universal Health Coverage Compendium.Ethics and disseminationReviewed and exempted by the Stanford University Office for Human Subjects Research and IRB on 20 May 2020. The results of this review will be disseminated through scholarly publication and presentation at regional and international conferences. This review is designed to inform broader WHO, International Federation for Emergency Medicine and partner efforts to strengthen critical care globally.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019146802.
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