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Information and Advice for the Home: Be coronavirus safe
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Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute Western Cape Department of Health (2021) CC

Manual 1. The Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community –PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community.PACK Home is designed for people seeking more... more

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COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers
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Wood, D.; A. Dramowski and R. Turner (2021) C1

Community health workers (CHWs) serve as a very important direct link between patients, communities and health services. As trusted on-the-ground support to community members, they therefore expand access to essential healthcare information as well as available treatment and prevention programmes. ... more

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South African cardiovascular risk stratification guideline for non-cardiac surgery

Alphonsus, C.; Naidoo, N.; Motshabi, P. et al. South African Medical Journal (2021) CC

The South African (SA) guidelines for cardiac patients for non-cardiac surgery were developed to address the need for cardiac risk assessment and risk stratification for elective non-cardiac surgical patients in SA, and more broadly in Africa. The guidelines were developed by updating the Canadian ...Cardiovascular Society Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management for Patients Who Undergo Non-cardiac Surgery, with a search of literature from African countries and recent publications. The updated proposed guidelines were then evaluated in a Delphi consensus process by SA anaesthesia and vascular surgical experts. The recommendations in these guidelines are: 1. We suggest that elective non-cardiac surgical patients who are 45 years and older with either a history of coronary artery disease, congestive cardiac failure, stroke or transient ischaemic attack, or vascular surgical patients 18 years or older with peripheral vascular disease require further preoperative risk stratification as their predicted 30-day major adverse cardiac event (MACE) risk exceeds 5% (conditional recommendation: moderate-quality evidence). 2. We do not recommend routine non-invasive testing for cardiovascular risk stratification prior to elective non-cardiac surgery in adults (strong recommendation: low-to-moderate-quality evidence). 3. We recommend that elective non-cardiac surgical patients who are 45 years and older with a history of coronary artery disease, or stroke or transient ischaemic attack, or congestive cardiac failure or vascular surgical patients 18 years or older with peripheral vascular disease should have preoperative natriuretic peptide (NP) screening (strong recommendation: high-quality evidence). 4. We recommend daily postoperative troponin measurements for 48 - 72 hours for non-cardiac surgical patients who are 45 years and older with a history of coronary artery disease, or stroke or transient ischaemic attack, or congestive cardiac failure or vascular surgical patients 18 years or older with peripheral vascular disease, i.e. (i) a baseline risk >5% for MACE 30 days after elective surgery (if no preoperative NP screening), or (ii) an elevated B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP)/N-terminal-prohormone B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) measurement before elective surgery (defined as BNP >99 pg/mL or a NT-proBNP >300 pg/mL) (conditional recommendation: moderate-quality evidence). Additional recommendations are given for the management of myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) and medications for comorbidities. more

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COVID-19 Resources for the Public
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Knowledge Translation Unit; Western Cape South Africa (2021) CC

Posters & Infographics on different topics, i.e: vaccination, people with high risk of severe Covid-19, for families, work, school, hand hygiene, care at home, public transport

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Information and Advice for the Home: COVID-19 at home
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Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute Western Cape Department of Health (2021) CC

Updated May 2021. Manual 2. The Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community –PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community.PACK Home is designed for p... more

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Information and Advice for the Home: Chronic conditions at home
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Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute Western Cape Department of Health (2021) CC

Updated May 2021. Manual 3. The Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community –PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community.PACK Home is designed for p... more

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Information and Advice for the Home: Be coronavirus safe at school
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Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute Western Cape Department of Health (2021) CC

Updated May 2021. Manual 4. The Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community –PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community.PACK Home is designed for p... more

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Cervical Cancer Resources

Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) (2021) CC

The cervix is the lower, narrow end of the uterus (the hollow, pear-shaped organ where a foetus can grow). The cervix leads from the uterus to the vagina (birth canal) below. Cervical cancer is the 2nd most common cancer among South African women, but the cancer women die of most in our country. ... more

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Community health workers’ efforts to build health system trust in marginalised communities: a qualitative study from South Africa

Watkins, J:W.; F. Griffiths, and J. Goudge BMJ Open (2021) C1

Community health workers (CHWs) enable marginalised communities, often experiencing structural poverty, to access healthcare. Trust, important in all patient–provider relationships, is difficult to build in such communities, particularly when stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and now ... more

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Strengthening prehospital clinical practice guideline development in South Africa: Reflections from guideline experts

McCaula, M.; T. Younga and M. Clarke (2021) CC

African Journal of Emergency Medicine Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 132-139

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COVID-19 Guidelines Module 5 - Drug therapy

National Department of Health, South Africa NDoH South Africa (2021) CC

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The South African Triage Scale

Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa (2021) CC

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Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

26 Nov. 2021

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Information and Advice for the Home: Understanding the COVID-19 vaccine
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Wesern Cape Government, South Africa; PACK (2021) CC

21 May 2021. he Practical Approach to Care Kit – PACK – is used by nurses, doctors and community health workers in their everyday work to care for patients at the clinic and in the community – PACK Adult, PACK Adolescent, PACK Child and PACK Community. PACK Adult is also known as APC (Adult P... more

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Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Policy (South Africa)

Dept. of Health, Republic of South Africa (2021) C1

Cervical cancer, along with maternal deaths, has been identified as a national priority in South Africa as well as other Sub-Saharan African countries. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in South Africa, after breast cancer. Due to limited access to prevention, early dia... more

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COVID 19 Vaccine Perceptions: A 15 country study
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization WHO, et al. (2021) CC

Initial public health responses to control the pandemic focused on promoting protective behaviors among the general population, including frequent hand washing, physical distancing and the use of face masks in public spaces However, many saw these only as interim measures to reduce the spread of the... more

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South Africa’s capacity to conduct antimicrobial stewardship

Chetty, S. Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases (2021) CC

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a serious public health threat was globally acknowledged by WHO in 2015, through the launch of the Global Action Plan (GAP). With a limited number of new antibiotics in the developmental pipeline, many countries are in the process of establishing strategies for anti... more

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The Global Drug Policy Index 2021

Global Commission on Drug Policy (2021) CC

The power of the Global Drug Policy Index lies in its key objective: to score and rank how countries are faring in different areas of drug policy as identified in the UN report ‘What we have learned over the last ten years: A summary of knowledge acquired and produced by the UN system on drug-r... more

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Basic Life Support Algorithm

The Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa (2021) CC

Basic Life Support Algorithm The Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa is a voluntary co-ordinating body whose primary aim is to foster and co-ordinate resuscitation training and practice

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So pas dieCOVID-19-entstof gekry? Welgedaan en dankie!

Wesern Cape Government, South Africa (2021) CC

24 May 2021

Information and Advice for the Home: Be coronavirus safe recommended

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Information and Advice for the Home: COVID-19 at home recommended

Information and Advice for the Home: Chronic conditions at home recommended

Information and Advice for the Home: Be coronavirus safe at school recommended

Information and Advice for the Home: Understanding the COVID-19 vaccine recommended

COVID 19 Vaccine Perceptions: A 15 country study recommended

Information and Advice for the Home: Be coronavirus safe
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COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers
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COVID-19 Resources for the Public
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Information and Advice for the Home: COVID-19 at home
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Information and Advice for the Home: Chronic conditions at home
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Information and Advice for the Home: Be coronavirus safe at school
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Information and Advice for the Home: Understanding the COVID-19 vaccine
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COVID 19 Vaccine Perceptions: A 15 country study
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