Why the study?
Prevalent issues and challenges in the provision of care for dyslipidemia and hypertension in Vietnamese adults required quantification across patient journey stages.
This semi-systematic review synthesizes data on the patient journey for hypertension and dyslipidemia in Vietnam to identify barriers to care.
Low completion rates across patient journey stages signal care gaps in Vietnam; leaves open questions on targeted interventions to improve control.
BACKGROUND: To understand the prevalent issues and challenges in the provision of care for dyslipidemia and hypertension in Vietnamese adults, quantification of patient journey stages (awareness, screening, diagnosis, treatment, adherence, and control) was performed in this semi-systematic review. METHODS: The EMBASE and MEDLINE databases were searched for English articles published between 2010 and 2019. Thesis abstracts, letters to the editor, editorials, case studies, and studies on patient subgroups or nationally unrepresentative studies, were excluded. Articles from Google, the Incidence and Prevalence Database, the World Health Organization, Vietnam's Ministry of Health, and those suggested by the authors were also included. The last search was run on December 10, 2019 for dyslipidemia and hypertension. RESULTS: A reviewer independently screened 586 retrievals for dyslipidemia and 177 retrievals for hypertension, and extracted data from 2 articles on dyslipidemia and 6 articles on hypertension that were included in the final synthesis. CONCLUSION: The data generated in this review will help overcome these issues and barriers to patient care in populations with these 2 conditions.
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