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Arch Intern Med ; 168(1): 86-93, 2008 Jan 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18195200

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BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of the South African government's expanding antiretroviral treatment program is unknown. Observational studies of treatment effectiveness are prone to selection bias, rarely compare patients receiving antiretroviral treatment with similar patients not receiving antiretroviral treatment, and underestimate mortality rates unless patients are actively followed up. METHODS: We followed up 14 267 patients in the Public Sector Anti-Retroviral Treatment project in Free State, South Africa, for up to 20 months after enrollment. A total of 3619 patients received highly active triple antiretroviral treatment (HAART) for up to 19 months (median, 6 months; interquartile range, 3-9 months) after enrollment. Patients' clinical data were linked with the national mortality register. Marginal structural regression models adjusted for baseline and time-varying covariates. RESULTS: Of 4570 patients followed up for at least 1 year, 53.2% died. Eighty-seven percent of patients who died had not received HAART. HAART was associated with lower mortality (hazard ratio, 0.14; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.11-0.18) and with the presence of tuberculosis (hazard ratio, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.46-0.81) after adjusting for age, sex, weight, clinic, district, CD4 cell count, cotrimoxazole therapy, tuberculosis at baseline, and previous antiretroviral therapy. Cotrimoxazole therapy was associated with lower mortality (hazard ratio, 0.37; 95% CI, 0.32-0.42). Each month of HAART was associated with an increase in CD4 cell count of 15.1 cells/microL (95% CI, 14.7-15.5 cells/microL) and with an increase in body weight of 602 g (95% CI, 548-658 g). CONCLUSIONS: HAART provided through these South African government health services seems as effective as that provided in high-income countries. Delays starting HAART contributed to high mortality rates. Faster expansion and timely commencement of HAART are needed.


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Antirretrovirais/uso terapêutico , Terapia Antirretroviral de Alta Atividade , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções por HIV/mortalidade , HIV-1 , Adulto , Contagem de Linfócito CD4 , Estudos de Coortes , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Masculino , África do Sul , Resultado do Tratamento
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BMJ ; 331(7519): 750-4, 2005 Oct 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16195293

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OBJECTIVES: To develop and implement an educational outreach programme for the integrated case management of priority respiratory diseases (practical approach to lung health in South Africa; PALSA) and to evaluate its effects on respiratory care and detection of tuberculosis among adults attending primary care clinics. DESIGN: Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial, with clinics as the unit of randomisation. SETTING: 40 primary care clinics, staffed by nurse practitioners, in the Free State province, South Africa. PARTICIPANTS: 1999 patients aged 15 or over with cough or difficult breathing (1000 in intervention clinics, 999 in control clinics). INTERVENTION: Between two and six educational outreach sessions delivered to nurse practitioners by usual trainers from the health department. The emphasis was on key messages drawn from the customised clinical practice guideline for the outreach programme, with illustrative support materials. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Sputum screening for tuberculosis, tuberculosis case detection, inhaled corticosteroid prescriptions for obstructive lung disease, and antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections. RESULTS: All clinics and almost all patients (92.8%, 1856/1999) completed the trial. Although sputum testing for tuberculosis was similar between the groups (22.6% in outreach group v 19.3% in control group; odds ratio 1.22, 95% confidence interval 0.83 to 1.80), the case detection of tuberculosis was higher in the outreach group (6.4% v 3.8%; 1.72, 1.04 to 2.85). Prescriptions for inhaled corticosteroids were also higher (13.7% v 7.7%; 1.90, 1.14 to 3.18) but the number of antibiotic prescriptions was similar (39.7% v 39.4%; 1.01, 0.74 to 1.38). CONCLUSIONS: Combining educational outreach with integrated case management provides a promising model for improving quality of care and control of priority respiratory diseases, without extra staff, in resource poor settings. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current controlled trials ISRCTN13438073.


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Educação em Enfermagem/métodos , Profissionais de Enfermagem/educação , Transtornos Respiratórios/enfermagem , Tuberculose Pulmonar/enfermagem , Adolescente , Corticosteroides/administração & dosagem , Adulto , Idoso , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Administração de Caso , Análise por Conglomerados , Feminino , Humanos , Pneumopatias Obstrutivas/diagnóstico , Pneumopatias Obstrutivas/tratamento farmacológico , Pneumopatias Obstrutivas/enfermagem , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Atenção Primária à Saúde , Prognóstico , Encaminhamento e Consulta/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtornos Respiratórios/tratamento farmacológico , África do Sul , Tuberculose Pulmonar/diagnóstico , Tuberculose Pulmonar/tratamento farmacológico
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