List of works - Simon Lewin

"Communicate to vaccinate": the development of a taxonomy of communication interventions to improve routine childhood vaccination

scientific article published on 11 May 2013

'Communicate to vaccinate' (COMMVAC). building evidence for improving communication about childhood vaccinations in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a programme of research

scientific article published on 2 December 2011

A Lay Health Worker Intervention to Increase Uptake and Completion of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Assessing Fidelity of Intervention Delivery

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

A comparison of linkage to HIV care after provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) versus voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) for patients with sexually transmitted infections in Cape Town, South Africa

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A new resource for developing and strengthening large-scale community health worker programs

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

A research and development agenda for systematic reviews that ask complex questions about complex interventions

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

A review of health behaviour theories: how useful are these for developing interventions to promote long-term medication adherence for TB and HIV/AIDS?

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A systematic review of qualitative evidence on barriers and facilitators to the implementation of task-shifting in midwifery services

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

Addressing the tensions and complexities involved in commissioning and undertaking implementation research in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Advancing the field of health systems research synthesis

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Application of the intervention Complexity Assessment Tool for Systematic Reviews within a Cochrane review: an illustrative case study

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 4: how to assess coherence

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 5: how to assess adequacy of data

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 7: understanding the potential impacts of dissemination bias

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Are vaccination programmes delivered by lay health workers cost-effective? A systematic review

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Are we entering a new era for qualitative research? Using qualitative evidence to support guidance and guideline development by the World Health Organization

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Assessing the applicability of findings in systematic reviews of complex interventions can enhance the utility of reviews for decision making ⬇️

scientific article published on August 14, 2013

Assessing the complexity of interventions within systematic reviews: development, content and use of a new tool (iCAT_SR).

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Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of doctor-nurse substitution strategies in primary care: qualitative evidence synthesis

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Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health: qualitative evidence synthesis

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Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health: qualitative evidence synthesis

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 2013)

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

Can lay health workers increase the uptake of childhood immunisation? Systematic review and typology

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Changing professional practice in tuberculosis care: an educational intervention

scientific article published in December 2004

Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group Guidance Series - paper 1: Introduction

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group Guidance paper 2: Methods for assessing methodological limitations, data extraction and synthesis, and confidence in synthesized qualitative findings

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Communication around HPV vaccination for adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Communication strategies to promote the uptake of childhood vaccination in Nigeria: a systematic map

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Community-directed interventions for informing and/or educating about early childhood vaccination

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Completeness of reporting of setting and health worker cadre among trials on antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation in pregnancy: an assessment based on two Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative literature: lessons learnt

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Current use was established and Cochrane guidance on selection of social theories for systematic reviews of complex interventions was developed

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Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 5 May 2014

Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Developing Evidence to Decision Frameworks and an Interactive Evidence to Decision Tool for Making and Using Decisions and Recommendations in Health Care

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Economic support to improve tuberculosis treatment outcomes in South Africa: a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Economic support to improve tuberculosis treatment outcomes in South Africa: a qualitative process evaluation of a cluster randomized controlled trial

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Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess claims about treatment effects: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork': using Goffman's theory of impression management to illuminate interprofessional practice on hospital wards

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Erratum to: Researching Complex Interventions in Health: The State of the Art.

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Evaluating the introduction of ward-based medical teams on collaboration and patient care

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

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Expanding the evidence base for global recommendations on health systems: strengths and challenges of the OptimizeMNH guidance process

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Extent, Awareness and Perception of Dissemination Bias in Qualitative Research: An Explorative Survey

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Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria: a qualitative study

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Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis

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Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Fair publication of qualitative research in health systems: a call by health policy and systems researchers

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

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Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Further exploration of dissemination bias in qualitative research required to facilitate assessment within qualitative evidence syntheses

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Governance arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

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Governance arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence

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Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: linking guidance development to policy development

scientific article published in 2012

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: rationale for and challenges of guidance development

scientific article published in 2012

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

scientific article published in January 2003

Hope is the pillar of the universe: health-care providers' experiences of delivering anti-retroviral therapy in primary health-care clinics in the Free State province of South Africa

scientific article published on 30 November 2006

Human‐Centered Design: Developing Evidence to Decision Frameworks and an Interactive Evidence to Decision Tool for Making and Using Decisions and Recommendations in Health Care (Global Challenges 9/2018)

Identification of preliminary core outcome domains for communication about childhood vaccination: An online Delphi survey

scientific article published on 20 August 2017

Implementation considerations when expanding health worker roles to include safe abortion care: a five-country case study synthesis

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

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Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Implementing a provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC) intervention in Cape town, South Africa: a process evaluation using the normalisation process model ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

Implementing large-scale programmes to optimise the health workforce in low- and middle-income settings: a multicountry case study synthesis

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

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

Incentives for lay health workers to improve recruitment, retention in service and performance

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Integrating HIV care into nurse-led primary health care services in South Africa: a synthesis of three linked qualitative studies

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Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care

scientific article published on 2 July 2010

Interventions aimed at communities to inform and/or educate about early childhood vaccination

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Key concepts that people need to understand to assess claims about treatment effects

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Lay health workers in primary and community health care

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Learning to Communicate

Mapping how information about childhood vaccination is communicated in two regions of Cameroon: What is done and where are the gaps?

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Maximising the impact of qualitative research in feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials: guidance for researchers

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Mobile‐based technologies to support healthcare provider to healthcare provider communication and management of care.

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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

Multiple and mixed methods in formative evaluation: Is more better? Reflections from a South African study

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Nonrandomized studies are not always found even when selection criteria for health systems intervention reviews include them: a methodological study

scientific article published on 04 February 2013

Optimizing the delivery of contraceptives in low- and middle-income countries through task shifting: a systematic review of effectiveness and safety

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Optimizing the world's nursing and midwifery roles to meet the Millennium Development Goals for maternal and child health more effectively

scientific article published on 4 August 2014

Outcomes mapping study for childhood vaccination communication: too few concepts were measured in too many ways

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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

PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Parents' and informal caregivers' views and experiences of communication about routine childhood vaccination: a synthesis of qualitative evidence.

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Parents' and informal caregivers' views and experiences of routine early childhood vaccination communication: qualitative evidence synthesis

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Patients' experiences of an intervention to support tuberculosis treatment adherence in South Africa

scientific article published in July 2010

Perceptions and experiences of childhood vaccination communication strategies among caregivers and health workers in Nigeria: A qualitative study

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Policy development in malaria vector management in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe

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Policymakers' and other stakeholders' perceptions of key considerations for health system decisions and the presentation of evidence to inform those considerations: an international survey

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

Provider experiences of the implementation of a new tuberculosis treatment programme: a qualitative study using the normalisation process model

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Provider-initiated testing and counselling for HIV - from debate to implementation

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Purposive sampling in a qualitative evidence synthesis: a worked example from a synthesis on parental perceptions of vaccination communication

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Qualitative "trial-sibling" studies and "unrelated" qualitative studies contributed to complex intervention reviews

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Rapid review methods more challenging during COVID-19: Commentary with a focus on 8 knowledge synthesis steps

scientific article published on 29 June 2020