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- Interventions for fatigue and weight loss in adults with advanced progressive illness
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Apr-2017
Fatigue and unintentional weight loss are two of the commonest symptoms experienced by people with advanced progressive illness. Appropriate interventions may bring considerable improvements in function and quality of life to seriously ill people and thei
- Interventions for fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Apr-2020
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term used to describe a group of chronic, progressive inflammatory disorders of the digestive tract. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the two main types. Fatigue is a common, debilitating and burde
- Interventions for fatigue in Parkinson's disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Oct-2015
Factors contributing to subjective fatigue in people with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) are not well known. This makes it difficult to manage fatigue effectively in PD.
- Interventions for fatigue in peripheral neuropathy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Dec-2014
Persistent feelings of fatigue (or subjective fatigue), which may be experienced in the absence of physiological factors, affect many people with peripheral neuropathy. A variety of interventions for subjective fatigue are available, but little is known a
- Interventions for fear of childbirth including tocophobia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Jul-2021
Many women experience fear of childbirth (FOC). While fears about childbirth may be normal during pregnancy, some women experience high to severe FOC. At the extreme end of the fear spectrum is tocophobia, which is considered a specific condition that may
- Interventions for female drug‐using offenders
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Dec-2019
This review represents one in a family of three reviews focusing on the effectiveness of interventions in reducing drug use and criminal activity for offenders.
- Interventions for female pattern hair loss
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-May-2016
Female pattern hair loss (FPHL), or androgenic alopecia, is the most common type of hair loss affecting women. It is characterised by progressive shortening of the duration of the growth phase of the hair with successive hair cycles, and progressive folli
- Interventions for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 28-Feb-2022
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) can be separated into primary, genetic or secondary causes. Primary disease results in nephrotic syndrome while genetic and secondary forms may be associated with asymptomatic proteinuria or with nephrotic syndrom
- Interventions for frostbite injuries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Dec-2020
Frostbite is a thermal injury caused when tissue is exposed to sub-zero temperatures (in degrees Celsius) long enough for ice crystals to form in the affected tissue. Depending on the degree of tissue damage, thrombosis, ischaemia, necrosis (tissue death)
- Interventions for great saphenous vein incompetence
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Aug-2021
Great saphenous vein (GSV) incompetence, causing varicose veins and venous insufficiency, makes up the majority of lower-limb superficial venous diseases. Treatment options for GSV incompetence include surgery (also known as high ligation and stripping),
- Interventions for growth failure in childhood Crohn's disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Oct-2006
Crohn's disease in childhood is a chronic relapsing condition. Fifteen to forty per cent of children with Crohn's disease have growth retardation (Griffiths 1993a). Some treatment modalities including corticosteroids have been implicated in growth failure
- Interventions for guttate psoriasis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Apr-2019
Guttate psoriasis is a distinctive acute form of psoriasis which characteristically occurs in children and young adults. Very little specific evidence-based guidance is available in standard texts to help make rational decisions about treatment options.
- Interventions for haemolytic uraemic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 21-Jan-2009
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) are related conditions with similar clinical features of variable severity. Survival of patients with HUS and TTP has improved greatly over the past two decades with improved
- Interventions for hand eczema
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Apr-2019
Hand eczema is an inflammation of the skin of the hands that tends to run a chronic, relapsing course. This common condition is often associated with itch, social stigma, and impairment in employment. Many different interventions of unknown effectiveness
- Interventions for heartburn in pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Sep-2015
Heartburn is one of the most common gastrointestinal symptoms in pregnant women. It can occur in all trimesters of pregnancy. The symptoms of heartburn in pregnancy may be frequent, severe and distressing, but serious complications are rare. Many interven
- Interventions for heartburn in pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Oct-2008
Heartburn is a common symptom in pregnancy affecting up to 80% of women in the third trimester. The reasons for the increase in symptoms in pregnancy are not well understood, but the effects of pregnancy hormones on the lower oesophageal sphincter and gas
- Interventions for heavy menstrual bleeding; overview of Cochrane reviews and network meta‐analysis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-May-2022
Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is excessive menstrual blood loss that interferes with women's quality of life, regardless of the absolute amount of bleeding. It is a very common condition in women of reproductive age, affecting 2 to 5 of every 10 women. D
- Interventions for helping people adhere to compression treatments for venous leg ulceration
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Mar-2016
Chronic venous ulcer healing is a complex clinical problem that requires intervention from skilled, costly, multidisciplinary wound-care teams. Compression therapy has been shown to help heal venous ulcers and to reduce recurrence. It is not known which i
- Interventions for helping people recognise early signs of recurrence in bipolar disorder
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Jan-2007
Recurrence rates for bipolar disorder are high despite effective treatments with mood stabiliser drugs. Self-help treatments and psychological treatments that teach patients to recognise and manage early warning symptoms and signs (EWS) of impending manic
- Interventions for helping to turn term breech babies to head first presentation when using external cephalic version
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Feb-2015
Breech presentation is associated with increased complications. Turning a breech baby to head first presentation using external cephalic version (ECV) attempts to reduce the chances of breech presentation at birth so as to avoid the adverse effects of bre