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e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries

Health technology is increasingly recognised as a feasible method of addressing health needs in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Primary Care 101, now known as PACK (Practical Approach to Care Kit), is a printed, algorithmic, checklist-based, comprehensive clinical decision support tool. It...

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Autores principales: Yau, Matthew, Timmerman, Venessa, Zwarenstein, Merrick, Mayers, Pat, Cornick, Ruth Vania, Bateman, Eric, Fairall, Lara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001093
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author Yau, Matthew
Timmerman, Venessa
Zwarenstein, Merrick
Mayers, Pat
Cornick, Ruth Vania
Bateman, Eric
Fairall, Lara
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description Health technology is increasingly recognised as a feasible method of addressing health needs in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Primary Care 101, now known as PACK (Practical Approach to Care Kit), is a printed, algorithmic, checklist-based, comprehensive clinical decision support tool. It assists clinicians with delivering evidence-based medicine for common primary care presentations and conditions. These assessment and treatment guides have been adopted widely in primary care clinics across South Africa. This paper focuses on the process of designing, developing, and implementing a digital version of the clinical decision support tool for use on a tablet computer. Lessons learnt throughout its development and pilot implementation could apply to the creation of electronic health interventions and the digitisation of clinical tools in LMICs.
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spelling pubmed-64075542019-03-21 e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries Yau, Matthew Timmerman, Venessa Zwarenstein, Merrick Mayers, Pat Cornick, Ruth Vania Bateman, Eric Fairall, Lara BMJ Glob Health Practice Health technology is increasingly recognised as a feasible method of addressing health needs in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Primary Care 101, now known as PACK (Practical Approach to Care Kit), is a printed, algorithmic, checklist-based, comprehensive clinical decision support tool. It assists clinicians with delivering evidence-based medicine for common primary care presentations and conditions. These assessment and treatment guides have been adopted widely in primary care clinics across South Africa. This paper focuses on the process of designing, developing, and implementing a digital version of the clinical decision support tool for use on a tablet computer. Lessons learnt throughout its development and pilot implementation could apply to the creation of electronic health interventions and the digitisation of clinical tools in LMICs. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6407554/ /pubmed/30899556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001093 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Yau, Matthew
Timmerman, Venessa
Zwarenstein, Merrick
Mayers, Pat
Cornick, Ruth Vania
Bateman, Eric
Fairall, Lara
e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
title e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
title_full e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
title_fullStr e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
title_full_unstemmed e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
title_short e-PC101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in South Africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
title_sort e-pc101: an electronic clinical decision support tool developed in south africa for primary care in low-income and middle-income countries
topic Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001093
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