Products Services BMJClinical decision support and tools to assist health care providers. The Practical Approach to Care Kit PACK programme is a comprehensive clinical practice aid that enables healthcare practitioners to diagnose and manage common conditions. It covers 4. 0 common symptoms and 2. HIVAIDS, womens health, and end of life care. This 4 pillar programme empowers staff, improves primary care in lower middle income countries. Guidance Integrated clinical decision support tool. Evidence based training educational outreach, adult education. Health systems change Task shifting task sharing. Monitoring evaluation QIP, audits, research. The programme and handbook has been developed by the Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute the latter with who we are now in partnership to expand its use in lower middle income countries. About PACKPACK is updated annually to comply with local clinical policy, regulations and essential drug lists, and is translated where necessary. It incorporates regular evidence updates from BMJ and other credible sources including WHO, to ensure that it is relevant and provides the latest best practice guidance. PACK implementation has been evaluated in 4 pragmatic RCTs in South Africa and shown to deliver modest but consistent improvements across a range of outcomes and behaviours including prescribing appropriate referral of severe and complex cases case detection of HIV2 and TB, and health care utilisation. Its effect on TB case detection is substantial and reproducible, documented in all three of the trials in which it was measured. ased on the summary of research findings for the implementation of PACK guidance. PACK is a game changer for our nurses. They used to spend their time doing very bureaucratic work and not seeing any patients, but now they are doing more clinical procedures, which is good for the population. Ronaldo Zonta, General Practitioner, Brazil. Find out more To find out more about the research findings or if want to take part in our initiative to help improve global health, please contact us today Dr Tracy Eastman KTU Director of International Development. Email teastmanbmj. Celebration is the third greatest hits album by American singer and songwriter Madonna, and the final release under her contract with Warner Bros. Records, her record.
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