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| Title |
The impact of community health worker-led home delivery of antiretroviral therapy on virological suppression: a non-inferiority cluster-randomized health systems trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, February 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12913-017-2032-7 |
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| Authors |
Pascal Geldsetzer, Joel M. Francis, Nzovu Ulenga, David Sando, Irene A. Lema, Eric Mboggo, Maria Vaikath, Happiness Koda, Sharon Lwezaula, Janice Hu, Ramadhani A. Noor, Ibironke Olofin, Elysia Larson, Wafaie Fawzi, Till Bärnighausen |
| Abstract |
Home delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by community health workers (CHWs) may improve ART retention by reducing the time burden and out-of-pocket expenditures to regularly attend an ART clinic. In addition, ART home delivery may shorten waiting times and improve quality of care for those in facility-based care by decongesting ART clinics. This trial aims to determine whether ART home delivery for patients who are clinically stable on ART combined with facility-based care for those who are not stable on ART is non-inferior to the standard of care (facility-based care for all ART patients) in achieving and maintaining virological suppression. This is a non-inferiority cluster-randomized trial set in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A cluster is one of 48 healthcare facilities with its surrounding catchment area. 24 clusters were randomized to ART home delivery and 24 to the standard of care. The intervention consists of home visits by CHWs to provide counseling and deliver ART to patients who are stable on ART, while the control is the standard of care (facility-based ART and CHW home visits without ART home delivery). In addition, half of the healthcare facilities in each study arm were randomized to standard counseling during home visits (covering family planning, prevention of HIV transmission, and ART adherence), and half to standard plus nutrition counseling (covering food production and dietary advice). The non-inferiority design applies to the endpoints of the ART home delivery trial; the primary endpoint is the proportion of ART patients at a healthcare facility who are virally suppressed at the end of the study period. The margin of non-inferiority for this primary endpoint was set at nine percentage points. As the number of ART patients in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to rise, this trial provides causal evidence on the effectiveness of a home-based care model that could decongest ART clinics and reduce patients' healthcare expenditures. More broadly, this trial will inform the increasing policy interest in task-shifting of chronic disease care from facility- to community-based healthcare workers. ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02711293 . Registration date: 16 March 2016. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Uganda | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 221 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 221 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 47 | 21% |
| Researcher | 29 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 17 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 8% |
| Other | 36 | 16% |
| Unknown | 52 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 46 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 42 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 40 | 18% |
| Unknown | 64 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 March 2017.
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#12,911,430
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#4,272
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#87
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