Research Articles (Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care)
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Individual and contextual correlates of mosquito net use among women in Nigeria
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-04-07)Background: Malaria has been described as an urgent public health priority with almost half of the world’s population being at risk. Use of insecticide-treated nets is considered one of the effective ways of preventing ... -
Transmission of respiratory viruses when using public ground transport : a rapid review to inform public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2020-05-07)In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries worldwide declared national states of emergency and implemented interventions to minimise the risk of transmission among the public. Evidence was needed to inform ... -
Exploring the evolution of engagement between academic public health researchers and decision-makers : from initiation to dissolution
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-02-10)Context: Relationships between researchers and decision-makers have demonstrated positive potential to influence research, policy and practice. Over time, interest in better understanding the relationships between the two ... -
Assessing the completeness and comparability of outcomes in systematic reviews addressing food security : protocol for a methodological study
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-01-09)Background: Systematic reviews should specify all outcomes at the protocol stage. Pre-specification helps prevent outcome choice from being influenced by knowledge of included study results. Completely specified ... -
Understanding the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for health policy and systems research : results of a research priority setting exercise
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-01-09)Background: Given the paradigmatic shift represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as compared to the Millennium Development Goals - in particular their broad and interconnected nature - a new set of ... -
Hepatitis C prevalence in HIV-infected heterosexual men and men who have sex with men
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2018)Background. Globally 1% of individuals are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). In South Africa (SA) the prevalence ranges between 0.3% and 1%, with few prospective screening data available. Similarly, local data on ... -
Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis : a technical summary
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2018)Tuberculosis and nutrition are intrinsically linked in a complex relationship. Altered metabolism and loss of appetite associated with tuberculosis may result in undernutrition, which in turn may worsen the disease or delay ... -
A systematic review of strategies for reducing missed opportunities for vaccination
(Elsevier, 2018)Background: Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOVs) occur when persons eligible for vaccination visit a health facility and do not get the vaccines they need. We conducted a systematic review to assess effects of ... -
Psychological interventions for alcohol use disorders in people living with HIV/AIDS : a systematic review
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019-10-28)Background: Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) are a significant impediment to achieving virological control. HIV non-suppression in PLWH with AUDs is mainly attributable to sub-optimal ... -
Standard echocardiography versus handheld echocardiography for the detection of subclinical rheumatic heart disease : protocol for a systematic review
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-02)Introduction Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a preventable and treatable chronic condition which persists in many developing countries largely affecting impoverished populations. Handheld echocardiography presents an ... -
Plagiarism in research : a survey of African medical journals
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-11)Objectives To examine whether regional biomedical journals in Africa had policies on plagiarism and procedures to detect it; and to measure the extent of plagiarism in their original research articles and reviews. Design ... -
Investigation of household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients increases case detection in Mwanza City, Tanzania
(BioMed Central, 2018-03)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing is a key strategy for containing TB and provides addition to the passive case finding approach. However, this practice has not been implemented in Tanzania, where there is ... -
Next generation clinical guidance for primary care in South Africa – credible, consistent and pragmatic
(Public Library of Science, 2018-03-30)Background: Agreed international development standards underpin high quality de novo clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). There is however, no international consensus on how high quality CPGs should ‘look’; or on whether ... -
Global emergency care clinical practice guidelines : a landscape analysis
(Elsevier, 2018)Introduction: An adaptive guideline development method, as opposed to a de novo guideline development, is dependent on access to existing high-quality up-to-date clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). We described ... -
An analysis of trunk kinematics and gait parameters in people with stroke
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: Approximately two out of three people with stroke experience gait problems. Trunk movement control and symmetry is an important prerequisite for functional walking gait. Movement control, measured objectively ... -
Prehospital providers’ perspectives for clinical practice guideline implementation and dissemination : strengthening guideline uptake in South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2019)Background: In 2016 the first African emergency care clinical practice guideline (CPG) was developed for national uptake in the prehospital sector in South Africa, with implementation starting in 2018. Comprehensive uptake ... -
Prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition in humanitarian emergencies : a multi-organisation collaboration to increase access to synthesised evidence
(SpringerOpen (part of Springer Nature), 2019-05-31)Background: Program decision-making to prevent and treat acute malnutrition in an emergency can be hampered by a lack of accessible and relevant overviews of directly available robust research evidence. There is often ... -
Critical care admission of South African (SA) surgical patients : results of the SA surgical outcomes study
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Background. Appropriate critical care admissions are an important component of surgical care. However, there are few data describing postoperative critical care admission in resource-limited low- and middle-income ... -
Quality of abstracts of pilot trials in heart failure : a protocol for a systematic survey
(Elsevier, 2017)Introduction: Pilot trials are initial small-scale studies done to inform the design of larger trials. Their findings like other studies are usually disseminated as peer-reviewed journal articles. Abstracts are used to ... -
Nutritional status of children on the National School Nutrition Programme in Capricorn District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Background. School feeding programmes are intended to alleviate short-term hunger, improve nutrition and cognition of children, andprovide incomes to families.Objectives. To assess the nutritional status of children receiving ...
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