Browsing by Author "Bateman, Eric"

Addressing the quality and scope of paediatric primary care in South Africa: evaluating contextual impacts of the introduction of the Practical Approach to Care Kit for children (PACK Child)

Author: Murdoch, Jamie ; Curran, Robyn ; Cornick, Ruth ; Picken, Sandy ; Bachmann, Max ; Bateman, Eric ; Simelane, Makhosazana L ; Fairall, Lara Date: 29 May 2020 Background Despite significant reductions in mortality, preventable and treatable conditions remain leading causes of death and illness in children in South Africa. The PACK Child intervention, comprising clinical decision support tool ... Read more c b

Addressing the quality of paediatric primary care: health worker and caregiver perspectives from a process evaluation of PACK child, a health systems intervention in South Africa

Author: Curran, Robyn ; Murdoch, Jamie ; Bachmann, Max ; Bateman, Eric ; Cornick, Ruth ; Picken, Sandra ; Simelane, Makhosazana L ; Fairall, Lara Date: 28 Jan 2021 Background The WHO’s Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has resulted in progress in addressing infant and child mortality. However, unmet needs of children continue to present a burden upon primary healthcare ... Read more c b

The costs and effects of the practical approach to lung health in South Africa

Author: Fairall, Lara Rosemary Date: 2006 Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-323). Read more

Development of a simple reliable radiographic scoring system to aid the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

Author: Pinto, Lancelot M ; Dheda, Keertan ; Theron, Grant ; Allwood, Brian ; Calligaro, Gregory ; van Zyl-Smit, Richard ; Peter, Jonathan ; Schwartzman, Kevin ; Menzies, Dick ; Bateman, Eric ; Pai, Madhukar ; Dawson, Rodney Date: 2013 Rationale: Chest radiography is sometimes the only method available for investigating patients with possible pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) with negative sputum smears. However, interpretation of chest radiographs in this context lacks specificity ... Read more c b

Diagnostic accuracy of an integrated respiratory guideline in identifying patients with respiratory symptoms requiring screening for pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross-sectional study

Author: English, Rene ; Bachmann, Max ; Bateman, Eric ; Zwarenstein, Merrick ; Fairall, Lara ; Bheekie, Angeni ; Majara, Bosielo ; Lombard, Carl ; Scherpbier, Robert ; Ottomani, Salah Date: 2006 BACKGROUND:To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the integrated Practical Approach to Lung Health in South Africa (PALSA) guideline in identifying patients requiring bacteriological screening for tuberculosis (TB), and to determine which ... Read more c b

Efficacy and safety of once-daily aclidinium in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Author: Jones, Paul ; Rennard, Stephen ; Agusti, Alvar ; Chanez, Pascal ; Magnussen, Helgo ; Fabbri, Leonardo ; Donohue, James ; Bateman, Eric ; Gross, Nicholas ; Lamarca, Rosa ; Caracta, Cynthia ; Gil, Esther Date: 2011 BACKGROUND: The long-term efficacy and safety of aclidinium bromide, a novel, long-acting muscarinic antagonist, were investigated in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: In two double-blind, ... Read more c b

Evaluating a streamlined clinical tool and educational outreach intervention for health care workers in Malawi: the PALM PLUS case study

Author: Sodhi, Sumeet ; Banda, Hastings ; Kathyola, Damson ; Burciul, Barry ; Thompson, Sandy ; Joshua, Martias ; Bateman, Eric ; Fairall, Lara ; Martiniuk, Alexandra ; Cornick, Ruth ; Faris, Gill ; Draper, Beverley ; Mondiwa, Martha ; Katengeza, Egnat ; Sanudi, Lifah ; Zw Date: 2011 BACKGROUND: Nearly 3 million people in resource-poor countries receive antiretrovirals for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, yet millions more require treatment. Key barriers to treatment scale up are shortages of trained health care workers, and ... Read more c b

From PALSA PLUS to PALM PLUS: adapting and developing a South African guideline and training intervention to better integrate HIV/AIDS care with primary care in rural health centers in Malawi

Author: Schull, Michael ; Cornick, Ruth ; Thompson, Sandy ; Faris, Gill ; Fairall, Lara ; Burciul, Barry ; Sodhi, Sumeet ; Draper, Beverley ; Joshua, Martias ; Mondiwa, Martha ; Banda, Hastings ; Kathyola, Damson ; Bateman, Eric ; Zwarenstein, Merrick Date: 2011 BACKGROUND: Only about one-third of eligible HIV/AIDS patients receive anti-retroviral treatment (ART). Decentralizing treatment is crucial to wider and more equitable access, but key obstacles are a shortage of trained healthcare workers ... Read more c b

Global asthma prevalence in adults: findings from the cross-sectional world health survey

Author: To, Teresa ; Stanojevic, Sanja ; Moores, Ginette ; Gershon, Andrea ; Bateman, Eric ; Cruz, Alvaro ; Boulet, Louis-Philippe Date: 2012 BACKGROUND: Asthma is a major cause of disability, health resource utilization and poor quality of life world-wide. We set out to generate estimates of the global burden of asthma in adults, which may inform the development of strategies to ... Read more c b

Immunomodulation with recombinant interferon-γ1b in pulmonary tuberculosis

Author: Dawson, Rod ; Condos, Rany ; Tse, Doris ; Huie, Maryann L ; Ress, Stanley ; Tseng, Chi-Hong ; Brauns, Clint ; Weiden, Michael ; Hoshino, Yoshihiko ; Bateman, Eric Date: 2009 BACKGROUND: Current treatment regimens for pulmonary tuberculosis require at least 6 months of therapy. Immune adjuvant therapy with recombinant interferon-γ1b (rIFN-γb) may reduce pulmonary inflammation and reduce the period of infectivity ... Read more c b

Implementing nurse-initiated and managed antiretroviral treatment (NIMART) in South Africa: a qualitative process evaluation of the STRETCH trial

Author: Georgeu, Daniella ; Colvin, Christopher ; Lewin, Simon ; Fairall, Lara ; Bachmann, Max ; Uebel, Kerry ; Zwarenstein, Merrick ; Draper, Beverly ; Bateman, Eric Date: 2012 BACKGROUND:Task-shifting is promoted widely as a mechanism for expanding antiretroviral treatment (ART) access. However, the evidence for nurse-initiated and managed ART (NIMART) in Africa is limited, and little is known about the key barriers ... Read more c b

Increased production of IL-4 and IL-12p40 from bronchoalveolar lavage cells are biomarkers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum

Author: Nolan, Anna ; Fajardo, Elaine ; Huie, Maryann L ; Condos, Rany ; Pooran, Anil ; Dawson, Rodney ; Dheda, Keertan ; Bateman, Eric ; Rom, William N ; Weiden, Michael D Date: 2013 BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) causes 1.45 million deaths annually world wide, the majority of which occur in the developing world. Active TB disease represents immune failure to control latent infection from airborne spread. Acid-fast bacillus ... Read more c b

Next-generation ARIA care pathways for rhinitis and asthma: a model for multimorbid chronic diseases

Author: Bousquet, J. J ; Schünemann, Holger J ; Togias, Alkis ; Erhola, Marina ; Hellings, Peter W ; Zuberbier, Torsten ; Agache, Ioana ; Ansotegui, Ignacio J ; Anto, Josep M ; Bachert, Claus ; Becker, Sven ; Bedolla-Barajas, Martin ; Bewick, Michael ; Bosnic-Anticevich, Sinthia ; Bosse, Isabelle ; Boulet, Louis P ; Bourrez, Jean M ; Brusselle, Guy ; Chavannes, Niels ; Costa, Elisio ; Cruz, Alvaro A ; Czarlewski, Wienczyslawa ; Fokkens, Wytske J ; Fonseca, Joao A ; Gaga, Mina ; Haahtela, Tari ; Illario, Maddalena ; Klimek, Ludger ; Kuna, Piotr ; Kvedariene, Violeta ; Le, L. T T ; Larenas-Linnemann, Desiree ; Laune, Daniel ; Lourenço, Olga M ; Menditto, Enrica ; Mullol, Joaquin ; Okamoto, Yashitaka ; Papadopoulos, Nikos ; Pham-Thi, Nhân ; Picard, Robert ; Pinnock, Hilary ; Roche, Nicolas ; Roller-Wirnsberger, Regina E ; Rolland, Christine ; Samolinski, Boleslaw ; Sheikh, Aziz ; Toppila-Salmi, Sanna ; Tsiligianni, Ioanna ; Valiulis, Arunas ; Valovirta, Erkka ; Vasankari, Tuula ; Ventura, Maria-Teresa ; Walker, Samantha ; Williams, Sian ; Akdis, Cezmi A ; Annesi-Maesano, Isabella ; Arnavielhe, Sylvie ; Basagana, Xavier ; Bateman, Eric ; Bedbrook, Anna ; Bennoor, K. S ; Benveniste, Samuel ; Bergmann, Karl C ; Bialek, Slawomir ; Billo, Nils ; Bindslev-Jensen, Carsten ; Bjermer, Leif ; Blain, Hubert ; Bonini, Mateo ; Bonniaud, Philippe ; Bouchard, Jacques ; Briedis, Vitalis ; Brightling, Christofer E ; Brozek, Jan ; Buhl, Roland ; Buonaiuto, Roland ; Canonica, Giorgo W ; Cardona, Victoria ; Carriazo, Ana M ; Carr, Warner ; Cartier, Christine ; Casale, Thomas ; Cecchi, Lorenzo ; Cepeda Sarabia, Alfonso M ; Chkhartishvili, Eka ; Chu, Derek K ; Cingi, Cemal ; Colgan, Elaine ; de Sousa, Jaime C ; Courbis, Anne L ; Custovic, Adnan ; Cvetkosvki, Biljana ; D’Amato, Gennaro ; da Silva, Jane ; Dantas, Carina ; Dokic, Dejand ; Dauvilliers, Yves ; Dedeu, Antoni ; De Feo, Giulia ; Devillier, Philippe ; Di Capua, Stefania ; Dykewickz, Marc ; Dubakiene, Ruta ; Ebisawa, Motohiro ; El-Gamal, Yaya ; Eller, Esben ; Emuzyte, Regina ; Farrell, John ; Fink-Wagner, Antjie ; Fiocchi, Alessandro ; Fontaine, Jean F ; Gemicioğlu, Bilun ; Schmid-Grendelmeir, Peter ; Gamkrelidze, Amiran ; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith ; Gomez, Maximiliano ; González Diaz, Sandra ; Gotua, Maia ; Guldemond, Nick A ; Guzmán, Maria-Antonieta ; Hajjam, Jawad ; O’B Hourihane, John ; Humbert, Marc ; Iaccarino, Guido ; Ierodiakonou, Despo ; Illario, Maddalena ; Ivancevich, Juan C ; Joos, Guy ; Jung, Ki-Suck ; Jutel, Marek ; Kaidashev, Igor ; Kalayci, Omer ; Kardas, Przemyslaw ; Keil, Thomas ; Khaitov, Mussa ; Khaltaev, Nikolai ; Kleine-Tebbe, Jorg ; Kowalski, Marek L ; Kritikos, Vicky ; Kull, Inger ; Leonardini, Lisa ; Lieberman, Philip ; Lipworth, Brian ; Lodrup Carlsen, Karin C ; Loureiro, Claudia C ; Louis, Renaud ; Mair, Alpana ; Marien, Gert ; Mahboub, Bassam ; Malva, Joao ; Manning, Patrick ; De Manuel Keenoy, Esteban ; Marshall, Gailen D ; Masjedi, Mohamed R ; Maspero, Jorge F ; Mathieu-Dupas, Eve ; Matricardi, Poalo M ; Melén, Eric ; Melo-Gomes, Elisabete ; Meltzer, Eli O ; Menditto, Enrica ; Mercier, Jacques ; Miculinic, Neven ; Mihaltan, Florin ; Milenkovic, Branislava ; Moda, Giuliana ; Mogica-Martinez, Maria-Dolores ; Mohammad, Yousser ; Montefort, Steve ; Monti, Ricardo ; Morais-Almeida, Mario ; Mösges, Ralf ; Münter, Lars ; Muraro, Antonella ; Murray, Ruth ; Naclerio, Robert ; Napoli, Luigi ; Namazova-Baranova, Leila ; Neffen, Hugo ; Nekam, Kristoff ; Neou, Angelo ; Novellino, Enrico ; Nyembue, Dieudonné ; O’Hehir, Robin ; Ohta, Ken ; Okubo, Kimi ; Onorato, Gabrielle ; Ouedraogo, Solange ; Pali-Schöll, Isabella ; Palkonen, Susanna ; Panzner, Peter ; Park, Hae-Sim ; Pépin, Jean-Louis ; Pereira, Ana-Maria ; Pfaar, Oliver ; Paulino, Ema ; Phillips, Jim ; Picard, Robert ; Plavec, Davor ; Popov, Ted A ; Portejoie, Fabienne ; Price, David ; Prokopakis, Emmanuel P ; Pugin, Benoit ; Raciborski, Filip ; Rajabian-Söderlund, Rojin ; Reitsma, Sietze ; Rodo, Xavier ; Romano, Antonino ; Rosario, Nelson ; Rottem, Menahenm ; Ryan, Dermot ; Salimäki, Johanna ; Sanchez-Borges, Mario M ; Sisul, Juan-Carlos ; Solé, Dirceu ; Somekh, David ; Sooronbaev, Talant ; Sova, Milan ; Spranger, Otto ; Stellato, Cristina ; Stelmach, Rafael ; Suppli Ulrik, Charlotte ; Thibaudon, Michel ; To, Teresa ; Todo-Bom, Ana ; Tomazic, Peter V ; Valero, Antonio A ; Valenta, Rudolph ; Valentin-Rostan, Marylin ; van der Kleij, Rianne ; Vandenplas, Olivier ; Vezzani, Giorgio ; Viart, Frédéric ; Viegi, Giovanni ; Wallace, Dana ; Wagenmann, Martin ; Wang, De Y ; Waserman, Susan ; Wickman, Magnus ; Williams, Dennis M ; Wong, Gary ; Wroczynski, Piotr ; Yiallouros, Panayiotis K ; Yorgancioglu, Arzu ; Yusuf, Osman M ; Zar, Heahter J ; Zeng, Stéphane ; Zernotti, Mario ; Zhang, Luo ; Zhong, Nan S ; Zidarn, Mihaela Date: 09 Sep 2019 Abstract Background In all societies, the burden and cost of allergic and chronic respiratory diseases are increasing rapidly. Most economies are struggling to deliver modern health care effectively. ... Read more

Overall asthma control achieved with budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy for patients on different treatment steps

Author: Bateman, Eric ; Harrison, Tim ; Quirce, Santiago ; Reddel, Helen ; Buhl, Roland ; Humbert, Marc ; Jenkins, Christine ; Peterson, Stefan ; Ostlund, Ollie ; O'Byrne, Paul ; Sears, Malcolm ; Eriksson, Goran Date: 2011 BACKGROUND: Adjusting medication for uncontrolled asthma involves selecting one of several options from the same or a higher treatment step outlined in asthma guidelines. We examined the relative benefit of introducing budesonide/formoterol ... Read more c b

Streamlining tasks and roles to expand treatment and care for HIV: randomised controlled trial protocol

Author: Fairall, Lara ; Bachmann, Max ; Zwarenstein, Merrick ; Lombard, Carl ; Uebel, Kerry ; van Vuuren, Cloete ; Steyn, Dewald ; Boulle, Andrew ; Bateman, Eric Date: 2008 BACKGROUND: A major barrier to accessing free government-provided antiretroviral treatment (ART) in South Africa is the shortage of suitably skilled health professionals. Current South African guidelines recommend that only doctors should ... Read more c b

Strengthening health human resources and improving clinical outcomes through an integrated guideline and educational outreach in resource-poor settings: a cluster-randomized trial

Author: Schull, Michael ; Banda, Hastings ; Kathyola, Damson ; Fairall, Lara ; Martiniuk, Alexandra ; Burciul, Barry ; Zwarenstein, Merrick ; Sodhi, Sumeet ; Thompson, Sandy ; Joshua, Martias ; Mondiwa, Martha ; Bateman, Eric Date: 2010 BACKGROUND:In low-income countries, only about a third of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) patients eligible for anti-retroviral treatment currently receive it. Providing decentralized treatment close ... Read more c b

Supporting middle-cadre health care workers in Malawi: lessons learned during implementation of the PALM PLUS package

Author: Sodhi, Sumeet ; Banda, Hastings ; Kathyola, Damson ; Joshua, Martias ; Richardson, Faye ; Mah, Emmay ; MacGregor, Hayley ; Kanike, Emmanuel ; Thompson, Sandy ; Fairall, Lara ; Bateman, Eric ; Zwarenstein, Merrick ; Schull, Michael J Date: 12 May 2014 Background: The government of Malawi is committed to the broad rollout of antiretroviral treatment in Malawi in the public health sector; however one of the primary challenges has been the shortage of trained health care workers. The Practical ... Read more c b

Task shifting and integration of HIV care into primary care in South Africa: The development and content of the streamlining tasks and roles to expand treatment and care for HIV (STRETCH) intervention

Author: Uebel, Kerry ; Fairall, Lara ; van Rensburg, Dingie ; Mollentze, Willie ; Bachmann, Max ; Lewin, Simon ; Zwarenstein, Merrick ; Colvin, Christopher ; Georgeu, Daniella ; Mayers, Pat ; Faris, Gill ; Lombard, Carl ; Bateman, Eric Date: 2011 BACKGROUND:Task shifting and the integration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care into primary care services have been identified as possible strategies for improving access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). This paper describes the ... Read more c b

The SYGMA programme of phase 3 trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of budesonide/formoterol given ‘as needed’ in mild asthma: study protocols for two randomised controlled trials

Author: O’Byrne, Paul M ; FitzGerald, J Mark ; Zhong, Nanshan ; Bateman, Eric ; Barnes, Peter J ; Keen, Christina ; Almqvist, Gun ; Pemberton, Kristine ; Jorup, Carin ; Ivanov, Stefan ; Reddel, Helen K Date: 10 Jan 2017 Background: In many patients with mild asthma, the low frequency of symptoms and the episodic nature of exacerbations make adherence to regular maintenance treatment difficult. This often leads to over-reliance on short-acting β2-agonist ... Read more

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