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- Interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised non-ICU patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Mar-2016
Delirium is a common mental disorder, which is distressing and has serious adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients. Prevention of delirium is desirable from the perspective of patients and carers, and healthcare providers. It is currently unclear, howev
- Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Nov-2009
Approximately 30 per cent of people over 65 years of age and living in the community fall each year; the number is higher in institutions. Although less than one fall in 10 results in a fracture, a fifth of fall incidents require medical attention.
- Interventions for preventing injuries in problem drinkers
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Sep-2008
Alcohol consumption has been linked with injuries through motor vehicle crashes, falls, drowning, fires and burns, and violence. In the US, half of the estimated 100,000 deaths attributed to alcohol each year are due to intentional and unintentional injur
- Interventions for preventing lower limb soft-tissue running injuries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Aug-2011
Overuse soft-tissue injuries occur frequently in runners. Stretching exercises, modification of training schedules, and the use of protective devices such as braces and insoles are often advocated for prevention. This is an update of a review first publis
- Interventions for preventing neuropathy caused by cisplatin and related compounds
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Feb-2014
Cisplatin and several related antineoplastic drugs used to treat many types of solid tumours are neurotoxic, and most patients completing a full course of cisplatin chemotherapy develop a clinically detectable sensory neuropathy. Effective neuroprotective
- Interventions for preventing oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving treatment
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Aug-2009
Treatment of cancer is increasingly more effective but is associated with short and long term side effects. Oral side effects remain a major source of illness despite the use of a variety of agents to prevent and treat them. One of these side effects is o
- Interventions for preventing tobacco sales to minors
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-May-2008
Laws restricting sales of tobacco products to minors exist in many countries, but young people may still purchase cigarettes easily.
- Interventions for preventing venous thromboembolism following abdominal aortic surgery
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Feb-2011
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is one of the most common, preventable complications of surgery. Although the relationship between surgery and DVT is well established in general surgical operations and most other subspecialties, the same cannot be said about a
- Interventions for preventing venous thromboembolism in adults undergoing knee arthroscopy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Aug-2022
Knee arthroscopy (KA) is a routine orthopedic procedure recommended to repair cruciate ligaments and meniscus injuries and, in suitable cases, to assist the diagnosis of persistent knee pain. There is a small risk of thromboembolic events associated with
- Interventions for preventing voice disorders in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Jun-2010
This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in The Cochrane Library in Issue 4, 2007.
- Interventions for primary vesicoureteric reflux
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Feb-2019
Vesicoureteric reflux (VUR) results in urine passing retrograde up the ureter. Urinary tract infections (UTI) associated with VUR have been considered a cause of permanent renal parenchymal damage in children with VUR. Management has been directed at prev
- Interventions for promoting booster seat use in four to eight year olds travelling in motor vehicles
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Sep-2012
Public health and traffic safety agencies recommend use of booster seats in motor vehicles for children aged four to eight years, and various interventions have been implemented to increase their use by individuals who transport children in motor vehicles
- Interventions for promoting physical activity
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Nov-2012
Little is known about the effectiveness of strategies to enable people to achieve and maintain recommended levels of physical activity.
- Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Jan-2010
Globally, fire-related burns and smoke inhalation accounted for 238,000 deaths in 2000, a rate of 3.9 deaths/100,000, with children and young persons aged less than 44 years accounting for the highest proportion of deaths. Smoke alarm ownership has been a
- Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Aug-2008
Despite the widely documented health advantages of breastfeeding over formula feeding, initiation rates remain relatively low in many high-income countries, particularly among women in lower income groups.
- Interventions for protecting renal function in the perioperative period
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Sep-2013
Various methods have been used to try to protect kidney function in patients undergoing surgery. These most often include pharmacological interventions such as dopamine and its analogues, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme
- Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Dec-2013
Communication problems in health care may arise as a result of healthcare providers focusing on diseases and their management, rather than people, their lives and their health problems. Patient-centred approaches to care delivery in the patient encounter
- Interventions for recurrent corneal erosions
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Aug-2013
Recurrent corneal erosion is a common cause of disabling ocular symptoms and predisposes the cornea to infection. It may follow corneal trauma. Measures to prevent the development of recurrent corneal erosion following corneal trauma have not been firmly
- Interventions for reducing anxiety in women undergoing colposcopy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Feb-2015
Prior to the development of cervical cancer abnormal cervical cells can be detected on a cervical smear. The usual practice following an abnormal cervical smear is to perform colposcopy. Colposcopy is the visualisation of the cervix using a binocular micr
- Interventions for replacing missing teeth: 1- versus 2-stage implant placement
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Sep-2009
Implants may be placed penetrating the oral mucosa (1-stage procedure) or can be completely buried under the oral mucosa (2-stage procedure) during the healing phase of the bone at the implant surface. With a 2-stage procedure the risk of having unwanted
