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Table 1 Timeline of the development of a toolkit for evidence-based guidelines to treat hypertension and type 2 diabetes, Cambodia 2019–2021

From: Developing a toolkit for implementing evidence-based guidelines to manage hypertension and diabetes in Cambodia: a descriptive case study

Step

Purpose

Date

Step 1: consultative meeting with key stakeholders

• Identify key bottlenecks in the prevention and management of and screening for NCDs at the HC level in Siem Reap

• Identify possible tools to address the bottlenecks

• Review a questionnaire for assessing the capacity of HCs to provide primary NCD care for hypertension and type 2 diabetes

April 2019

Step 2: HC capacity survey

• Implement a cross-sectional facility survey among primary healthcare centres to assess the capacity of HCs in all four operational districts in Siem Reap to provide primary NCD care for hypertension and type 2 diabetes

June 2019

Step 3: scoping review

• Conduct a scoping review of recent primary care interventions for managing NCDs in low-resource settings in Asia

November 2019–March 2020

Step 4: development and assessment of the toolkit

• Develop a preliminary toolkit based on steps 1–3

• Introduce the preliminary toolkit to the stakeholder advisory group for feedback

• Revise the toolkit based on the feedback and reassess it through semi-structured interviews with the Stakeholder Evaluation Group in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh

• Finalize the toolkit based on the feedback from interviews with the evaluation group

April 2020–March 2021

  1. NCDs: noncommunicable diseases