“…Outpatient costs were assessed in terms of frequency and costs of outpatient visits (n=19) [4, 6-8, 14, 15, 18-21, 23, 25, 26, 30, 31, 34, 37, 42, 45], mental health specialist visits and costs (n=4) [4,7,8,21,36], emergency department visits (n=11) [4,16,20,21,29,30,34,37,39,42,44] and medication costs (n=6) [4,20,31,34,37,40]. Total healthcare costs or utilisation were studied in 13 primary studies [4,8,9,14,20,25,27,28,31,34,37,40,41] and diabetes-related preventive services in five studies [7-9, 19, 23]. Indirect costs of absence from work were investigated in seven studies [6,22,33,41,42,46,47] (ESM Table 1).…”