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Browsing Health Sciences by UP Author "Cameron, David A."
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Van Rooyen, Marietjie; Cameron, David A.; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Blitz, J.J.; Hugo, Jannie; Creative Studios, Dept for Education Innovation, University of Pretoria (2009-04-03)
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Swart, A.M.; Chisholm, B.S.; Cohen, K.; Workman, L.J.; Cameron, David A.; Blockman, M. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-12)BACKGROUND. Since 2008, the Medicines Information Centre (MIC) has run the South African National HIV & TB Health Care Worker Hotline which provides free information on patient treatment to all healthcare workers in South ...
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Cameron, David A.; Van der Merwe, H. (South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2012-12)A social marketing strategy, including substantial prizes, was used to promote HIV testing at 17 institutions of higher learning in South Africa. Over 20 000 students with a mean age of 19 years were counselled and tested ...
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Wolvaardt, Gustaaf; Johnson, Suzanne; Cameron, David A.; Botha, Barend Johannes Jacobus; Kornik, Saul (Health Systems Trust, 2014)Inadequate delegation of authority, defective budgeting processes, staffing issues, lack of managerial skills, vacancies in key managerial positions, and ineffective use or absence of quality management information systems ...
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Lentsoane, Pearl P.; Meyer, Johanna Catharina; Schellack, Natalie; Cameron, David A. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2014-09)Palliative care and pain management is one of the most important challenges faced by resource-limited settings in Africa. In South Africa, the need for palliative care has increased with the growing Human Immunodeficiency ...
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Cameron, David A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-07)It is usually possible to deal with severe pain in patients with advanced cancer by following basic palliative care principles. Occasionally, however, a patient whose pain had previously been well controlled suddenly starts ...
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Jones, M.; Cameron, David A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-10)Task shifting has enabled South Africa (SA) to rapidly expand its HIV treatment programme. This has been achieved by training and mentoring primary-care nurses in nurse initiation and management of antiretroviral therapy ...
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Ramdas, Nishana; Meyer, Johanna Catharina; Cameron, David A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-07-01)BACKGROUND : Lost to follow-up (LTFU) is a major challenge that hinders the success of antiretroviral treatment (ART). OBJECTIVE : To identify factors conducted to a low LTFU rate. METHODS : We conducted a two-part ...
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Slaven, Frances; Cameron, David A. (Unisa Press, 2017)This scoping review attempts to contextualise the current state of research regarding responding to co-morbid depression and HIV in primary healthcare, identify the gaps in research and develop appropriate recommendations. ...
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Van Rooyen, Marietjie; Cameron, David A.; Blitz, J.J.; Creative Studios, Dept for Education Innovation, University of Pretoria (2009-04-03)No abstract available
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Blitz, J.J.; Van Rooyen, M.R.; Cameron, David A.; Pickworth, G.P.; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog (Open Journals Systems, 2010-08)INTRODUCTION: A section of the undergraduate curriculum was revised due to consistently poor student evaluation. The chosen didactic method for achieving this change was reciprocal peer teaching. This innovation may have ...
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Cameron, David A.; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Van Rooyen, Marietjie; Hugo, Johannes F.M.; Blitz, J.J.; Bergh, Anne-Marie (South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2011)BACKGROUND: Fifth-year medical students from the University of Pretoria participated in a four-week rotation in the primary care clinics of a large metropolitan centre. An academic service-learning (ASL) approach was ...
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Cameron, David A.; Gerber, Amor; Mbatha, Melusi; Mutyabule, Judith; Swart, Helga (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)OBJECTIVES: To determine the percentage of nurses initiating new HIV-positive patients on therapy within 2 months of attending the Nurse Initiation and Maintenance of Antiretroviral Therapy (NIMART) course, and to identify ...
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Cameron, David A. (OpenJournals, 2009-03)In the mid-1960s two doctors, one in London and the other in Chicago, set about changing the accepted medical care of dying patients. In London, Dr Cicely Saunders established St Christopher's Hospice specifically to provide ...
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Govender, N.P. (Nelesh); Chetty, V.; Roy, M.; Chiller, T.; Oladoyinbo, S.; Maotoe, T.; Stevens, W.S.; Pinini, Z.; Spencer, D.; Venter, Willem Daniel Francois; Jassat, Waasila; Cameron, David A.; Meintjes, Graeme; Mbengashe, T.; Pillay, Yogan (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-12)Cryptococcus neoformans is the most common cause of laboratoryconfirmed meningitis in South Africa.1 Despite the increased coverage of antiretroviral treatment (ART), the country’s incidence of cryptococcal meningitis ...
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Jones, Martin; Stander, Maryna; Van Zyl, Marlene; Cameron, David A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-09)BACKGROUND: In 2011 an experienced HIV nurse from the UK was deployed for 3 months to act as a mentor to nurses learning to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) in primary care clinics in a small town in the Eastern ...
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Cameron, David A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-07)No abstract available.
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Cameron, David A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-07)No abstract available.
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