Elizabeth D Pienaar
South African Medical Research Council
22 Papers
38 Citations
Elizabeth D Pienaar is an academic researcher from South African Medical Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 20 publications. Previous affiliations of Elizabeth D Pienaar include Cochrane Collaboration.
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Papers
Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations
Eileen Kaner,Fiona Beyer,Colin Muirhead,Fiona Campbell,Elizabeth D Pienaar,Nicolas Bertholet,Jean B. Daeppen,John B. Saunders,Bernard Burnand +8 more
TL;DR: Brief interventions consistently produced reductions in alcohol consumption, and the effect was clear in men at one year of follow up, but unproven in women.
The effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care settings: A systematic review
Eileen Kaner,Heather O Dickinson,Fiona Beyer,Elizabeth D Pienaar,Carla M. Schlesinger,Fiona Campbell,John B. Saunders,Bernard Burnand,Nick Heather +8 more
TL;DR: Brief interventions can reduce alcohol consumption in men, with benefit at a year after intervention, but they are unproven in women for whom there is insufficient research data.
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Task shifting from doctors to non‐doctors for initiation and maintenance of antiretroviral therapy
TL;DR: Assessment of the quality of initiation and maintenance of HIV/AIDS care in models that task shift care from doctors to non-doctors in Africa finds moderate quality evidence that there is probably no difference in mortality when doctors initiated therapy and nurses provided follow-up, and low quality data that death at one year may be lower in the task shifting group.
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Developing a geographic search filter to identify randomised controlled trials in Africa: finding the optimal balance between sensitivity and precision
TL;DR: The African filter improved precision with some loss in sensitivity, and incomplete reporting of trial location in electronic bibliographic records restricts efficiency of geographic filters.
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The challenges of systematically reviewing public health interventions.
Nicki Jackson,Elizabeth Waters,Laurie M. Anderson,Ross Bailie,Penny Hawe,Lucio Naccarella,Shane A. Norris,Sandy Oliver,Mark Petticrew,Elizabeth D Pienaar,Jennie Popay,Helen Roberts,Wendy A Rogers,John Shepherd,Amanda Sowden,Helen Thomas +15 more
TL;DR: Many of the issues faced when reviewing evidence of public health intervention effectiveness are outlined, including how to identify, select and critically appraise relevant research and to collect and analyse data from the studies included in the review.