ArticleBMJ global health2018
Using a mentorship model to localise the Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK): from South Africa to Nigeria.
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- Supporting a rapid primary care response to emergent communicable disease threats with PACK (Practical Approach to Care Kit) in Florianópolis, Brazil.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Barriers and enablers to improving integrated primary healthcare for non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions in Ethiopia: a mixed methods study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- The Lancet Nigeria Commission: investing in health and the future of the nation.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Article
- Revamping of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
- Addressing the quality and scope of paediatric primary care in South Africa: evaluating contextual impacts of the introduction of the Practical Approach to Care Kit for children (PACK Child).BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Effects of PACK guide training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial in Florianópolis, Brazil.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- Empowering frontline providers to deliver universal primary healthcare using the Practical Approach to Care Kit.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Article
- Crossing borders: the PACK experience of spreading a complex health system intervention across low-income and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2018Article
- Using a mentorship model to localise the Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK): from South Africa to Brazil.BMJ global health · 2018Article
- PACK Child: the development of a practical guide to extend the scope of integrated primary care for children and young adolescents.BMJ global health · 2018Article
- e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2018Article
- Empowering frontline providers to deliver universal primary healthcare using the Practical and Approach to care kit.BMJ global health · 2018Article
- Practical Approach to Care Kit: Innovation for nurses' clinical practice in HIV management.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemArticle
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Abstract
Nigeria, in its quest to strengthen its primary healthcare system, is faced with a number of challenges including a shortage of clinicians and skills. Methods are being sought to better equip primary healthcare clinicians for the clinical demands that they face. Using a mentorship model between developers in South Africa and Nigerian clinicians, the Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) for adult patients, a health systems strengthening programme, has been localised and piloted in 51 primary healthcare facilities in three Nigerian states. Lessons learnt from this experience include the value of this remote model of localisation for rapid localisation, the importance of early, continuous stakeholder engagement, the need expressed by Nigeria's primary healthcare clinicians for clinical guidance that is user friendly and up-to-date, a preference for the tablet version of the PACK Adult guide over hard copies and the added value of WhatsApp groups to complement the programme of face-to-face continuous learning. Introduction of the PACK programme in Nigeria prompted uptake of evidence-informed recommendations within primary healthcare services.
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