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Educational outreach visits to primary care nurses improved tuberculosis detection and treatment of obstructive lung disease

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebn.9.2.58

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    Fairall LR, Zwarenstein M, Bateman ED, et al. Effect of educational outreach to nurses on tuberculosis case detection and primary care of respiratory illness: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2005;331:750–4.OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    Q Do educational outreach visits to nurse practitioners improve tuberculosis detection and management of respiratory illness in primary care clinics in rural South Africa?

    METHODS

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    cluster randomised controlled trial.

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    concealed.

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    blinded (patients and data collectors).

    Embedded ImageFollow up period:

    1 and 4 months after intervention began.

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    40 large primary care clinics in Free State province, South Africa.

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    1999 patients ⩾15 years of age (mean age 45 y, 65% women) who had difficult breathing on presentation or in the past …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Dr M Zwarenstein, St Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. merrick.zwarenstein{at}ices.on.ca

    • Sources of funding: International Development Research Centre, Canada; Medical Research Council, South Africa; Free State Department of Health; and University of Cape Town Lung Institute.