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"My approach to this job is...one person at a time": Perceived discordance between population-level quality targets and patient-centred care

scientific article published on March 2014

A cluster randomized trial evaluating electronic prescribing in an ambulatory care setting

scientific article

A demonstration project of a multi-component educational intervention to improve integrated post-fracture osteoporosis care in five rural communities in Ontario, Canada

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A flow diagram to facilitate selection of interventions and research for health care

scientific article published on January 1998

A knowledge translation collaborative to improve the use of therapeutic hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest patients: protocol for a stepped wedge randomized trial

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A multifaceted intervention for quality improvement in a network of intensive care units: a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

A national sentinel surveillance network for the measurement of ill-health in South Africa. A prerequisite for epidemiological research and health planning

scientific article published on February 1994

A pragmatic resolution

scientific article published in May 2009

A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers

scientific article published on 12 May 2009

A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers

scientific article published in May 2009

A randomised controlled trial of lay health workers as direct observers for treatment of tuberculosis.

scientific article published in June 2000

A scoping review to improve conceptual clarity of interprofessional interventions

scientific article published on 23 December 2010

A substantial and confusing variation exists in handling of baseline covariates in randomized controlled trials: a review of trials published in leading medical journals

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

A systematic review of strategies for partner notification for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS

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A theory-based process evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial of printed educational messages to increase primary care physicians' prescription of thiazide diuretics for hypertension [ISRCTN72772651].

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Allocation techniques for balance at baseline in cluster randomized trials: a methodological review

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An effectiveness trial of a diagnostic test in a busy outpatients department in a developing country: issues around allocation concealment and envelope randomization

scientific article published in July 2000

An emerging framework for understanding the nature of interprofessional interventions

An innovative telemedicine knowledge translation program to improve quality of care in intensive care units: protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic trial

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

An intervention to improve interprofessional collaboration and communications: a comparative qualitative study

scientific article published on July 2010

Association of ICU or hospital admission with unintentional discontinuation of medications for chronic diseases

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Attitudes of private general practitioners towards health care in South Africa.

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Audit of public sector primary diabetes care in Cape Town, South Africa: high prevalence of complications, uncontrolled hyperglycaemia, and hypertension

scientific article published on December 1997

Bed use in the medical wards of Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town.

scientific article published on November 1991

Building capacity for antiretroviral delivery in South Africa: a qualitative evaluation of the PALSA PLUS nurse training programme

scientific article published on 18 November 2008

Caring Near and Far by Connecting Community-Based Clients and Family Member/Friend Caregivers Using Passive Remote Monitoring: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Challenges in the research ethics review of cluster randomized trials: international survey of investigators

scientific article published on April 2013

Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service innovations in health care and public health

scientific article

Changes in Prescribing Patterns Following Publication of the ALLHAT Trial

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Changing professional practice in tuberculosis care: an educational intervention

scientific article published in December 2004

Chest radiograph in acute lower respiratory infections in children

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Chest radiograph in acute respiratory infections

scientific article (published 2008-01-23)

Chest radiograph in acute respiratory infections in children

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Child health and health care utilisation. A community-based survey in Mitchell's Plain, CP.

scientific article published in May 1990

Commentary: Sputum prevalence data suggest Mexican TB rates will explode on contact with HIV epidemic

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Communication Channels in General Internal Medicine: A Description of Baseline Patterns for Improved Interprofessional Collaboration

article by Lesley Gotlib Conn et al published 27 May 2009 in Qualitative Health Research

Competition in collaborative clothing: a qualitative case study of influences on collaborative quality improvement in the ICU

scientific article published on 15 February 2013

Consensus on interprofessional collaboration in hospitals: statistical agreement of ratings from ethnographic fieldwork and measurement scales

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Controlled trial of an intervention to improve cholesterol management in diabetes patients in remote Aboriginal communities

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Cost-effectiveness of educational outreach to primary care nurses to increase tuberculosis case detection and improve respiratory care: economic evaluation alongside a randomised trial.

scientific article published on 11 January 2010

Cost-effectiveness of nurse-led versus doctor-led antiretroviral treatment in South Africa: pragmatic cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

Crossing borders: the PACK experience of spreading a complex health system intervention across low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

DOTS for temporary workers in the agricultural sector. An exploratory study in tuberculosis case detection.

scientific article published in December 2003

Deficiencies in the quality of diabetes care: comparing specialist with generalist care misses the point

scientific article published on February 2007

Delayed educational reminders for long-term medication adherence in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (DERLA-STEMI): protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 9 June 2012

Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions: fine in theory, but evidence of effectiveness in practice is needed

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Developing a framework for the ethical design and conduct of pragmatic trials in healthcare: a mixed methods research protocol

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Development of a South African integrated syndromic respiratory disease guideline for primary care.

scientific article published in September 2008

Development of a minimization instrument for allocation of a hospital-level performance improvement intervention to reduce waiting times in Ontario emergency departments

scientific article published on 08 June 2009

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

scientific article published on 25 August 2006

Disengaged: a qualitative study of communication and collaboration between physicians and other professions on general internal medicine wards

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Does clinical equipoise apply to cluster randomized trials in health research?

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Duration of illness in ambulatory children diagnosed with bronchiolitis

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Educational outreach to general practitioners reduces children's asthma symptoms: a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Effect of an educational toolkit on quality of care: a pragmatic cluster randomized trial

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

Effect of educational outreach to nurses on tuberculosis case detection and primary care of respiratory illness: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in October 2005

Effect of widespread restrictions on the use of hospital services during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome

scientific article published in June 2007

Effect on tuberculosis outcomes of educational outreach to South African clinics during two randomised trials.

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Effectiveness of Antiretroviral Treatment in a South African Program A Cohort Study

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Effectiveness of a group diabetes education programme in under-served communities in South Africa: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial.

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Effectiveness of a group diabetes education programme in underserved communities in South Africa: pragmatic cluster randomized control trial

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Effectiveness of pre-licensure interprofessional education and post-licensure collaborative interventions

scientific article published on May 2005

Electronic prescribing in an ambulatory care setting: a cluster randomized trial

Equity versus humanity in health care.

scientific article published in October 1993

Ethical and policy issues in cluster randomized trials: rationale and design of a mixed methods research study

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

Ethical issues posed by cluster randomized trials in health research

scientific article

Evaluating a Serious Gaming Electronic Medication Administration Record System Among Nursing Students: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

Evaluating a Serious Gaming Electronic Medication Administration Record System Among Nursing Students: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Evaluating a serious gaming electronic medication administration record (eMAR) system among nursing students: Study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

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

scientific article published on 8 November 2011

Evaluation of a toolkit to improve cardiovascular disease screening and treatment for people with type 2 diabetes: protocol for a cluster-randomized pragmatic trial

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Evaluation of a village health worker programme: the use of village health worker retained records

scientific article published on September 1990

Evaluation of an Emergency Department Lean Process Improvement Program to reduce length of stay.

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

Evaluation of an emergency department lean process improvement program to reduce length of stay

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Evaluation of lay health workers' needs to effectively support anti-tuberculosis treatment adherence in Malawi.

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Examining the nature of interprofessional practice: An initial framework validation and creation of the InterProfessional Activity Classification Tool (InterPACT).

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Expanding access to ART in South Africa: the role of nurse-initiated treatment

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Exploring the nature of interprofessional collaboration and family member involvement in an intensive care context

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Failure to cope: the hidden curriculum of emergency department wait times and the implications for clinical training

scientific article published on January 2015

Feedback GAP: pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Feedback GAP: study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care

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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

scientific article published on 26 July 2011

Gender disparity amongst TB suspects and new TB patients according to data recorded at the South African Institute of Medical Research laboratory for the Western Cape Region of South Africa.

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Guideline uptake is influenced by six implementability domains for creating and communicating guidelines: a realist review

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Handheld computers for survey and trial data collection in resource-poor settings: development and evaluation of PDACT, a Palm Pilot interviewing system

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Health impact of hospital restrictions on seriously ill hospitalized patients: lessons from the Toronto SARS outbreak

scientific article published on September 2008

Health services research--key to the health care crises

scientific article published in May 1990

Health systems research training enhances workplace research skills: a qualitative evaluation

scientific article published in January 2003

Household smoking and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in children with asthma

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ICES report: five policy recommendations from Toronto's SARS outbreak to improve the safety and efficacy of restrictions on hospital admissions to manage infectious disease outbreaks

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Identifying factors likely to influence compliance with diagnostic imaging guideline recommendations for spine disorders among chiropractors in North America: a focus group study using the Theoretical Domains Framework

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Impact of CONSORT extension for cluster randomised trials on quality of reporting and study methodology: review of random sample of 300 trials, 2000-8.

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Impact of a centralized osteoporosis coordinator on post-fracture osteoporosis management: a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on 16 July 2011

Impact of a chronic disease self-management program on health care utilization in rural communities: a retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data.

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Implementation of national guidelines, incorporated within structured diabetes and hypertension records at primary level care in Cape Town, South Africa: a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

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

scientific article published on 16 July 2012

Implementing wait-time reductions under Ontario government benchmarks (Pay-for-Results): a Cluster Randomized Trial of the Effect of a Physician-Nurse Supplementary Triage Assistance team (MDRNSTAT) on emergency department patient wait times

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Improving the clarity of the interprofessional field: implications for research and continuing interprofessional education

scientific article published on January 2009

Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement

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Innovating to improve primary care in less developed countries: towards a global model: Table 1

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Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice-based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes

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Interprofessional communication with hospitalist and consultant physicians in general internal medicine: a qualitative study

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Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

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Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.

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Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes (update)

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Interprofessional information work: innovations in the use of the chart on internal medicine teams

scientific article published in December 2007

Interprofessional interaction, negotiation and non-negotiation on general internal medicine wards

scientific article published in November 2009

Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations.

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Interventions to promote collaboration between nurses and doctors

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Is HIV/AIDS a primary-care disease? Appropriate levels of outpatient care for patients with HIV/AIDS.

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Knowledge translation and interprofessional collaboration: Where the rubber of evidence-based care hits the road of teamwork

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Lay Health Workers experience of a tailored knowledge translation intervention to improve job skills and knowledge: a qualitative study in Zomba district Malawi

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Lay health worker intervention with choice of DOT superior to standard TB care for farm dwellers in South Africa: a cluster randomised control trial.

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Lay health workers in primary and community health care

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Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases

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Legislative barriers to outpatient e-prescribing in a randomized trial

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Levels of care needed by medical inpatients in a teaching hospital.

scientific article

Looking inside the black box: a theory-based process evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial of printed educational materials (the Ontario printed educational message, OPEM) to improve referral and prescribing practices in primary care in

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Looking inside the black box: results of a theory-based process evaluation exploring the results of a randomized controlled trial of printed educational messages to increase primary care physicians' diabetic retinopathy referrals [Trial registration

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Making clinical trials more relevant: improving and validating the PRECIS tool for matching trial design decisions to trial purpose

scientific article published on 27 April 2013

Making trials matter: pragmatic and explanatory trials and the problem of applicability

scientific article published on 03 June 2009

Managing executive dysfunction following acquired brain injury and stroke using an ecologically valid rehabilitation approach: a study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial

scientific article published on 22 September 2013

Managing primary health care in South Africa at district level--the MRC/IUPHC Workshop

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Medicine and nursing: a social contract to improve collaboration and patient-centred care?

scientific article published in November 2013

Methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions: a primer for researchers and health care managers

scientific article published on January 2011

Monitoring use of knowledge and evaluating outcomes

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Most patients attending a 'walk-in' clinic at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital could safely be managed at primary care level

scientific article published in January 1997

Nurse-physician relations and quality of nursing care: findings from a national survey of nurses

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Nursing emotion work and interprofessional collaboration in general internal medicine wards: a qualitative study

scientific article published on November 2008

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

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

PRECIS-2: a tool to improve the applicability of randomised controlled trials

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Partner notification

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Partner notification

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Partner notification

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Partner notification

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Peer review of statistics in medical research. Journal reviewers are even more baffled by sample size issues than grant proposal reviewers

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Pressure ulcer multidisciplinary teams via telemedicine: a pragmatic cluster randomized stepped wedge trial in long term care

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Prevalence and reliability of asthma symptoms in primary school children in Cape Town

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Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the adult population of a rural South African village

scientific article published in September 1996

Primary health care depends on the district health system

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Printed educational messages aimed at family practitioners fail to increase retinal screening among their patients with diabetes: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN72772651].

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Printed educational messages fail to increase use of thiazides as first-line medication for hypertension in primary care: a cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN72772651].

scientific article published on 17 September 2016

Prioritizing performance measurement for emergency department care: consensus on evidence-based quality of care indicators

scientific article published on September 2011

Promoting development and uptake of health innovations: The Nose to Tail Tool

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Protocol for a scoping review of post-trial extensions of randomised controlled trials using individually linked administrative and registry data

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Providers' perceptions of barriers to the management of type 2 diabetes in remote Aboriginal settings

scientific article published on November 2011

Public sector primary care of diabetics--a record review of quality of care in Cape Town.

scientific article published on August 1996

Randomised controlled trial of clinical outcome after chest radiograph in ambulatory acute lower-respiratory infection in children

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Randomised controlled trial of self-supervised and directly observed treatment of tuberculosis

scientific article published in October 1998

Randomised trials in the South African Medical Journal, 1948-1997.

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Research Reports

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Research and child mental health policy.

scientific article published in April 1994

Researchers' perceptions of ethical challenges in cluster randomized trials: a qualitative analysis

scientific article published on 3 January 2013

Risk factors for childhood asthma and wheezing. Importance of maternal and household smoking

scientific article published on September 1996

Scope of EPOC is clarified

scientific article published on July 2003

Scott Reeves: 1967–2018

Staff knowledge, attitudes and practices in public sector primary care of diabetes in Cape Town.

scientific article published in March 1997

Staff training and ambulatory tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in South Africa

scientific article published on 25 April 2005

Stakeholder views regarding ethical issues in the design and conduct of pragmatic trials: study protocol

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Strategies for partner notification for sexually transmitted diseases

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

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

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

scientific article published on 3 December 2010

Structuring Communication Relationships for Interprofessional Teamwork (SCRIPT): a cluster randomized controlled trial.

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Structuring communication relationships for interprofessional teamwork (SCRIPT): A Canadian initiative aimed at improving patient-centred care

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

scientific article published on 12 May 2014

Surge capacity associated with restrictions on nonurgent hospital utilization and expected admissions during an influenza pandemic: lessons from the Toronto severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak.

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Survey of consent practices in cluster randomized trials: improvements are needed in ethical conduct and reporting

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Systematic review: 'state of the science' health care decision-making

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Systematic reviews of the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies and programmes

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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

scientific article published on 2 August 2011

Task shifting of antiretroviral treatment from doctors to primary-care nurses in South Africa (STRETCH): a pragmatic, parallel, cluster-randomised trial.

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Teamwork, collaboration, coordination, and networking: Why we need to distinguish between different types of interprofessional practice

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Telephone follow-up in a randomized controlled trial in a less developed country: feasibility, validity and representativeness

scientific article published on March 2000

Testing a TheoRY-inspired MEssage ('TRY-ME'): a sub-trial within the Ontario Printed Educational Message (OPEM) trial

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

The 1983 distribution of hospitals and hospital beds in the RSA by area, race, ownership and type.

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The CLOQS trial protocol: a cluster-randomized trial evaluating a simple, low-cost intervention to reduce treatment times in acute stroke

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The Importance of Describing as Well as Defining Usual Care

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The Ontario printed educational message (OPEM) trial to narrow the evidence-practice gap with respect to prescribing practices of general and family physicians: a cluster randomized controlled trial, targeting the care of individuals with diabetes a

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The PRECIS-2 tool has good interrater reliability and modest discriminant validity

scientific article published on 08 June 2017

The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) guide: developing a clinical decision support tool to simplify, standardise and strengthen primary healthcare delivery

scientific article published in 2018

The Practical Approach to Lung Health in South Africa (PALSA) intervention: respiratory guideline implementation for nurse trainers.

scientific article published in December 2006

The TOronto ThromboProphylaxis Patient Safety Initiative (TOPPS): A cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 27 May 2017

The Trial Protocol Tool: The PRACTIHC software tool that supported the writing of protocols for pragmatic randomized controlled trials

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The case for knowledge translation: shortening the journey from evidence to effect

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The doctor-nurse game in the age of interprofessional care: a view from Canada

scientific article published in March 2008

The effectiveness of interprofessional education: key findings from a new systematic review

scientific article published on May 2010

The ethical challenges raised in the design and conduct of pragmatic trials: an interview study with key stakeholders

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

The impact of a knowledge translation intervention employing educational outreach and a point-of-care reminder tool vs standard lay health worker training on tuberculosis treatment completion rates: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled

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The introverted medical school--time to rethink medical education

scientific article published on July 1994

The pattern of care in the medical wards of a teaching hospital.

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The relationship between pragmatism, timing, and study size on impact of randomized trials: a qualitative, hypothesis generating study of trials of systemic corticosteroids for COVID-19

scientific article published in 2022

The role for pragmatic randomized controlled trials (pRCTs) in comparative effectiveness research

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The structure of South Africa's health service

scientific article published on March 1994

Training for health services and systems research in Sub-Saharan Africa--a case study at four East and Southern African universities

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Translating research into policy and practice in developing countries: a case study of magnesium sulphate for pre-eclampsia

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Tuberculosis drug resistance in the Western Cape.

scientific article published in June 1995

Underrecognition and undertreatment of asthma in Cape Town primary school children

scientific article published in August 1998

Understanding staff perspectives on collaborative quality improvement in the ICU: a qualitative exploration

Understanding the relationship between the perceived characteristics of clinical practice guidelines and their uptake: protocol for a realist review

scientific article published on 6 July 2011

Using qualitative interviews within medical education research: why we must raise the 'quality bar'

Utilisation of public health services by caregivers of children from Khayelitsha presenting with acute diarrhoea

scientific article published on August 1993

Utilization review and health care expenditures

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Validity and reliability of a multiple-group measurement scale for interprofessional collaboration

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Validity of the register of medical practitioners for manpower planning. Results and recommendations from a postal sample survey

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Variability in research ethics review of cluster randomized trials: a scenario-based survey in three countries

scientific article published on 05 February 2014

Village health-workers and GOBI-FFF. An evaluation of a rural programme.

scientific article published in May 1990

WITHDRAWN: Chest radiograph in acute respiratory infections

retracted scientific article published on 7 October 2009

Weight information on the 'Road to Health' card inadequate for growth monitoring

scientific article published in October 1990

What is the role and authority of gatekeepers in cluster randomized trials in health research?

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What kind of randomised trials do patients and clinicians need?

scientific article published on 31 July 2009

What kind of randomized trials do patients and clinicians need?

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

What kind of randomized trials do we need?

scientific article published in May 2009

What kind of randomized trials do we need?

scientific article published on 16 April 2009

What's so great about collaboration?

scientific article published on April 2000

Who is the research subject in cluster randomized trials in health research?

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Why are so few randomized trials useful, and what can we do about it?

Why we will remain pragmatists: four problems with the impractical mechanistic framework and a better solution

scientific article published in May 2009

Working together but apart: barriers and routes to nurse--physician collaboration

scientific article published in May 2002

Written parental consent in school-based HIV/AIDS prevention research.

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[Meta-analysis of the Cochrane Collaboration. Promoting collaboration between nurses and physicians]

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

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