Efficacy of telephone follow-up on glycemic control in patients with diabetes mellitus:a Meta-analysis / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of telephone follow-up on glycemic control in patients with diabetes mellitus. Methods Randomized clinical trials that assessed the effectiveness of telephone follow-up in patients with diabetes mellitus were selected in the databases of Cochrane library, JBI, PubMed, Medline, EMBASE, EBSCO, OVID, Springer, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China Biomedical Literature Database, VIP , Wangfang Data. At the same time manual retrieval of relevant professional information to collect randomized clinical trials that met the inclusion criteria. The searching time was from database establishment to June 2016. RevMan5.2 software was used to analyze the data after quality assessment. Results A total of 12 randomized controlled trials were included in a total of 1905 patients. Meta-analyses showed that, compared with the conventional nursing group, the telephone follow-up could significantly reduce the level of glycosylated hemoglobin (weighted mean difference was-0.49, 95% confidence interval was-0.52--0.46, P<0.01), the level of fasting blood glucose (weighted mean difference was-0.99, 95% confidence interval was-1.16--0.83, P<0.01). Conclusions Telephone follow-up can improve blood glucose control in patients with diabetes, it is worth to be popularized in clinical practice.