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Community based pharmacy intervention in the prevention and management of communicable diseases in developing countries: a systematic review of literature
Oluwafumbi Oluwaloni Bello, Vibhu Paudyal, Margaret C Watson
Citation
Oluwafumbi Oluwaloni Bello, Vibhu Paudyal, Margaret C Watson. Community based pharmacy intervention in the prevention and management of communicable diseases in developing countries: a systematic review of literature.
PROSPERO
2012:CRD42012002670
Available from http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD42012002670
Review question(s)
What is the evidence of the effectiveness of community pharmacy based interventions in communicable disease prevention and management?
Searches
MEDLINE (2001 to 2012)
EMBASE (2001 to 2012)
Types of study to be included
All forms of study designs will be included for evaluation e.g. Randomised controlled trial, non-randomised comparative studies, observational, cohort, before and after studies. Systematic reviews.
Condition or domain being studied
Communicable forms of diarrhoea and malaria
Participants/ population
No restrictions regarding age, gender or race will be imposed.
Intervention(s), exposure(s)
Community pharmacists led interventions only; e.g., health advice and services.
Comparator(s)/ control
Other services e.g. hospital based services where such evidence is available
Outcome(s)
Primary outcomes
Resolution of symptoms.
Reduction of mortality and morbidity.
Symptom relief.
Quality of life.
Secondary outcomes
Relapse.
Patient satisfaction.
Reduction in number of pharmacy visits.
Data extraction, (selection and coding)
A data extraction tool will be developed. Independent, duplicate data extraction will be undertaken for each study.
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
Quality assessment: will be conducted as part of the data extraction process and independent, duplicate quality assessment of each study will be undertaken. Validated tools developed by CASP and ReBIP and the Cochrane tool will be used.
Strategy for data synthesis
Quality assessment: will be conducted as part of the data extraction process extraction process and independent, duplicate quality assessment of each study will be undertaken. Validated tools developed by CASP and ReBIP and the Cochrane tool will be used.
Analysis of subgroups or subsets
None planned.
Contact details for further information
Vibhu Paudyal
Centre of Academic Primary Care
University of Aberdeen
Polwarth Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
Scotland AB25 2ZD
v.paudyal@abdn.ac.uk
Organisational affiliation of the review
University of Aberdeen
Review team
Dr Oluwafumbi Oluwaloni Bello, University of Aberdeen Dr Vibhu Paudyal, University of Aberdeen Dr Margaret C Watson, University of Aberdeen
Formal screening of search results against eligibility criteria
Data extraction
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
Data analysis
Prospective meta-analysis
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