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- Interventions to prevent injuries in construction workers
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Feb-2018
Construction workers are frequently exposed to various types of injury-inducing hazards. There are a number of injury prevention interventions, yet their effectiveness is uncertain.
- Interventions to prevent occupational noise‐induced hearing loss
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Jul-2017
This is the second update of a Cochrane Review originally published in 2009. Millions of workers worldwide are exposed to noise levels that increase their risk of hearing disorders. There is uncertainty about the effectiveness of hearing loss prevention i
- Interventions to prevent or treat heavy menstrual bleeding or pain associated with intrauterine‐device use
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Aug-2022
Heavy menstrual bleeding and pain are common reasons women discontinue intrauterine device (IUD) use. Copper IUD (Cu IUD) users tend to experience increased menstrual bleeding, whereas levonorgestrel IUD (LNG IUD) users tend to have irregular menstruation
- Interventions to prevent women from developing gestational diabetes mellitus: an overview of Cochrane Reviews
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Jun-2020
The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing, with approximately 15% of pregnant women affected worldwide, varying by country, ethnicity and diagnostic thresholds. There are associated short- and long-term health risks for women and
- Interventions to promote informed consent for patients undergoing surgical and other invasive healthcare procedures
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Jun-2013
Achieving informed consent is a core clinical procedure and is required before any surgical or invasive procedure is undertaken. However, it is a complex process which requires patients be provided with information which they can understand and retain, o
- Interventions to promote patient utilisation of cardiac rehabilitation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Feb-2019
International clinical practice guidelines routinely recommend that cardiac patients participate in rehabilitation programmes for comprehensive secondary prevention. However, data show that only a small proportion of these patients utilise rehabilitation.
- Interventions to promote the wearing of hearing protection
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Jan-2014
This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in The Cochrane Library in Issue 2, 2006 and previously updated in 2009.
- Interventions to reduce acute and late adverse gastrointestinal effects of pelvic radiotherapy for primary pelvic cancers
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Jan-2018
An increasing number of people survive cancer but a significant proportion have gastrointestinal side effects as a result of radiotherapy (RT), which impairs their quality of life (QoL).
- Interventions to reduce ambient particulate matter air pollution and their effect on health
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-May-2019
Ambient air pollution is associated with a large burden of disease in both high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To date, no systematic review has assessed the effectiveness of interventions aiming to reduce ambient ai
- Interventions to reduce body temperature to 35 ⁰C to 37 ⁰C in adults and children with traumatic brain injury
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-Oct-2020
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, with an estimated 5.5 million people experiencing severe TBI worldwide every year. Observational clinical studies of people with TBI suggest an association between raised body temperat
- Interventions to reduce contaminated aerosols produced during dental procedures for preventing infectious diseases
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Oct-2020
Many dental procedures produce aerosols (droplets, droplet nuclei and splatter) that harbour various pathogenic micro-organisms and may pose a risk for the spread of infections between dentist and patient. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to greater concern
- Interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Aug-2016
Corruption is the abuse or complicity in abuse, of public or private position, power or authority to benefit oneself, a group, an organisation or others close to oneself; where the benefits may be financial, material or non-material. It is wide-spread in
- Interventions to reduce emigration of health care professionals from low‐ and middle‐income countries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Sep-2011
The emigration of skilled professionals from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to high-income countries (HICs) is a general phenomenon but poses particular challenges in health care, where it contributes to human resource shortages in the health sy
- Interventions to reduce haemorrhage during myomectomy for fibroids
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Jul-2015
Benign smooth muscle tumours of the uterus, known as fibroids or myomas, are often symptomless. However, about one-third of women with fibroids will present with symptoms that are severe enough to warrant treatment. The standard treatment of symptomatic f
- Interventions to reduce harm from continued tobacco use
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Dec-2016
Although smoking cessation is currently the only guaranteed way to reduce the harm caused by tobacco smoking, a reasonable secondary tobacco control approach may be to try and reduce the harm from continued tobacco use amongst smokers unable or unwilling
- Interventions to reduce risky sexual behaviour for preventing HIV infection in workers in occupational settings
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Nov-2011
The workplace provides an important avenue to prevent HIV.
- Interventions to reduce shoulder pain following gynaecological laparoscopic procedures
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Jan-2019
Laparoscopy is a common procedure used to diagnose and treat various gynaecological conditions. Shoulder-tip pain (STP) as a result of the laparoscopy occurs in up to 80% of women, with potential for significant morbidity, delayed discharge and readmissio
- Interventions to reduce Staphylococcus aureus in the management of eczema
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Oct-2019
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) can cause secondary infection in eczema, and may promote inflammation in eczema that does not look infected. There is no standard intervention to reduce S. aureus burden in eczema. It is unclear whether antimicrobial trea
- Interventions to reduce the time to diagnosis of brain tumours
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Sep-2020
Brain tumours are recognised as one of the most difficult cancers to diagnose because presenting symptoms, such as headache, cognitive symptoms, and seizures, may be more commonly attributable to other, more benign conditions. Interventions to reduce the
- Interventions to reduce tobacco use in people experiencing homelessness
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Dec-2020
Populations experiencing homelessness have high rates of tobacco use and experience substantial barriers to cessation. Tobacco-caused conditions are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among people experiencing homelessness, highlighting a
