Abstract

This review highlights the best recommendable interventions by appraising evidence of the effectiveness of telehealth interventions for glycemic control in medically underserved patients in the community. Searches of literature published from 2009 to 2020 were conducted using electronic databases including Cochrane Library, CINAHL Complete, PubMed, and manual search. The final thirteen studies were selected for analysis and integration, narrowing down from among a total of 687 studies found in databases. Findings showed significant and effective glycemic control in most studies reviewed through that the telehealth interventions using telemonitoring with frequent self-measured blood glucose data transmission, patient interactions with telehealth managers, and healthy goal attainment. This review provides important insights that the development of a telehealth management platform is needed to increase the care quality and access of for medically underserved patients with diabetes in the community.

Keywords: Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Telehealth; Telemedicine; Glycemic control; Hemoglobin A1c; Medically underserved; Multiethnic; Culturally diverse