We thank the participating clinics the Themba Lethu Clinic of Helen Joseph Hospital and the Gauteng Department of Health, the Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, and the ACTS Clinic and their medical directors, Dr. Thapelo Maotoe, Dr. Jean Bassett, and Dr. Margie Hardman, and staff for their assistance to the study and support of this research.
We thank the participating clinics – the Themba Lethu Clinic of Helen Joseph Hospital and the Gauteng Department of Health, the Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, and the ACTS Clinic – and their medical directors and staff for their assistance to the study and support of this research.
We would also like to thank the Community Medicine department at Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences CUHAS and CUHASAS in general for their guidance and technical assistance to ensure this study is a success.
YN and SKP conceived the study and provided guidance and assistance to JHP during this study.
We thank Bindu Bali, Andrea Smith, Kate Thompson, and Barry Linnane for their assistance in patient recruitment to this study.
We would like to thank Alexandra Wigger, Wolfgang Jacob, Andrea Steiner, Claudia Kühne, Sabine Damast and Markus Nußbaumer for expert technical assistance and their contributions to this study.
Participants will receive assistance to individualize the study diet based on their usual dietary habits.
We are grateful to Suzanne Beaudin for technical assistance with this study, and to Dr. Kamyar Kahnamoui for helpful discussions about screening and recruiting patients into this study.
Poland already provides financial assistance to Belarussians studying in Poland because their political activities prevent their doing so at home.
Comparison of the closed-loop assistance in this study was to standard hand-provided GDFT; comparison to other fluid management strategies, especially in institutions without guidelines, would be valuable.
