Table 1 Summary of characteristics of the individual sources of evidence
From: Hypoglycaemia in older home-dwelling people with diabetes- a scoping review
First author, year (reference) | Place of origin | Population (n) | Age range | Setting | Study design | Data collection | Thematic focus/aim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dunning, 2005 [29] | Australia | T2DMa (30) | 33–84 | Diabetes outpatient education centre | Cross-sectional | Structured interviews/observation of skills | Patient knowledge and self-management |
Farmer, 2012 [30] | UK | DMb (4081) | 45–77d | Ambulance calls | Retrospective observational | Records of emergency call assistance | Incidence, consequences |
Feil, 2011 [31] | US | DM and dementia/cognitive impairment (497,900) | >  65 | Research database (home-dwellers and nursing home) | Cross-sectional | Research database | Incidence, risk factors |
Gehlaut, 2015 [32] | US | T2DM (108) | Â | Endocrinology centre | Prospective observational, non-blinded | Continuous glucose monitoring | Incidence |
Hambling, 2017 [33] | UK | T2DM and chronic kidney disease (1379) | 73–83d | General practice | Cross-sectional | Medical records/audit | Risk factors |
Harsch, 2018 [34] | Germany | T2DM (160) | 47–101 | Hospitalized patients | Retrospective survey | Standardized questionnaire and tests | Patient knowledge |
Hewitt, 2010 [35] | UK | T2DM (1047) | 75–100 | General practice | Factorial cluster randomized trial | Interview and standardized tests | Patient knowledge and management |
Holstein, 2003 [36] | Germany | DM (264) | 4–95 | Emergency admission to hospital | Cohort study | Clinical data (blood glucose measurements) | Incidence |
Holstein, 2010 [37] | Germany | T2DM (139) | 46–97 | Emergency admission to hospital | Prospective observational study | Clinical data (blood glucose measurements) | Incidence, risk factors |
Kachroo, 2015 [38] | US | T2DM (21613) | 65–100 | Commercial database | Retrospective cohort | Medical records | Consequences |
Lee, 2017 [39] | US | T2DM (1206) | 64 (mean at baseline) | Ambulance calls, emergency department visits, hospitalization | Prospective cohort study | Medical records | Incidence, risk factors |
Lipska, 2013 [40] | US | T2DM (9094) | 60 ± 10e,f | Community setting | Cohort study | Registry data and questionnaire | Risk factors |
Lipska, 2015 [41] | US | DM (1288) | 73 ± 6e | Community setting | Cross-sectional | Registry data | Risk factors |
Parsaik, 2013 [42] | US | T2DM | 63 ± 12e | Ambulance calls | Cohort study | Ambulance records | Incidence, consequences |
Penfornis, 2015 [43] | France | T2DM and renal disease (980) | Â | Outpatients (GP and diabetologist) | Cross-sectional | Clinical data registered by general practitioner | Risk factors |
Rajendran, 2015 [44] | UK | T1DMc (59) and T2DM (106) | 47–84 | Emergency department care | Cross-sectional | Electronic patient records | Incidence, consequences |
Reed, 2003 [45] | UK | DM (130) | Â | Outpatients | Cross-sectional | Observations and structured questionnaire | Knowledge, self-management |
Reifegerste, 2016 [46] | Germany | Informal caregivers of T2DM patients (488) | 61 ± 14e | Outpatients (participants of disease management program) | Cross-sectional | Survey | Informal caregiver knowledge |
Sotiropoulos, 2005 [47] | Greece | T2DM (207) | 45–88 | Hospital | Cross-sectional | Patient records, blood samples, questionnaire | Incidence, knowledge, risk factors |
Thomson, 1991 [48] | UK | T2DM (45) | 61–82 | Hospital | Case-control | Structured interviews | Knowledge |
Thorpe, 2015 [49] | USA | T2DM and dementia (15,880) | ≥65 | Mixed setting of home-dwellers, nursing home, hospital | Longitudinal retrospective cohort study | Patient records, registry data | Risk factors |
Villani, 2016 [50] | USA | DM (12,411) | 57 ± 21e | Ambulance service | Retrospective observational study | Ambulance reports | Incidence, consequences |
Zaccardi, 2016 [51] | Australia | DM (79,172) | 72% were > 60 | Hospital admission | Longitudinal retrospective observational study | Hospital database | Incidence, consequences |