Outreach education for integration of HIV/AIDS care, antiretroviral treatment, and tuberculosis care in primary care clinics in South Africa: PALSA PLUS pragmatic cluster randomised trial.

Authors :: Zwarenstein, Merrick
Fairall, Lara R.
Lombard, Carl
Mayers, Pat
Bheekie, Angeni
English, René G.
Lewin, Simon
Bachmann, Max O.
Bateman, Eric
Source :: BMJ: British Medical Journal (Overseas & Retired Doctors Edition). 5/14/2011, Vol. 342 Issue 7806, p1066-1066. 1p.
Publication Year :: 2011
Abstract: The article reports on a study on the effectiveness of educational outreach programme for increasing access to and improving comprehensiveness of care for ambulatory HIV/AIDS patients. As stated, clinical outreach education of nurses at primary care clinics on AIDS and antiretroviral treatment is effective in improving comprehensive care of AIDS patients also suffering from tuberculosis. However, the study couldn't find any evidence if such programmes also increased the access to care.

Subjects :: *PERSONNEL management
*TUBERCULOSIS treatment
*AIDS education
*ANALYSIS of variance
*ANTIVIRAL agents
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*EPIDEMIOLOGY
*HIV infections
*PROBABILITY theory
*RESEARCH funding
*TUBERCULOSIS
*DATA analysis
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials

Language :: English
ISSN :: 17592151
Volume :: 342
Issue :: 7806
Database :: Academic Search Index
Journal :: BMJ: British Medical Journal (Overseas & Retired Doctors Edition)
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 65433230
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2022

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