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

Objective To investigate whether PALSA PLUS, an on-site educational outreach programme of non-didactic, case based, iterative clinical education of staff, led by a trainer, can increase access to and comprehensiveness of care for patients with HIV/AIDS.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:BMJ
Main Authors: Zwarenstein, Merrick, Fairall, Lara R, Lombard, Carl, Mayers, Pat, Bheekie, Angeni, English, René G, Lewin, Simon, Bachmann, Max O, Bateman, Eric
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2011
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080737
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21511783
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d2022
Description
Summary:Objective To investigate whether PALSA PLUS, an on-site educational outreach programme of non-didactic, case based, iterative clinical education of staff, led by a trainer, can increase access to and comprehensiveness of care for patients with HIV/AIDS.