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- Selenium supplementation for critically ill adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Jul-2015
Selenium is a trace mineral essential to health and has an important role in immunity, defence against tissue damage and thyroid function. Improving selenium status could help protect against overwhelming tissue damage and infection in critically ill adul
- Selenium supplementation for Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Jun-2013
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a common auto-immune disorder. The most common presenting symptoms may include anxiety, negative mood, depression, dry skin, cold intolerance, puffy eyes, muscle cramps and fatigue, deep voice, constipation, slow thinking and po
- Selenium supplementation for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-Jan-2013
Selenium is a key component of a number of selenoproteins which protect against oxidative stress and have the potential to prevent chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, observational studies have shown inconsistent associations
- Selenium supplementation to prevent short‐term morbidity in preterm neonates
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Oct-2003
Selenium is an essential trace element and component of a number of selenoproteins including glutathione peroxidase, which has a role in protecting against oxidative damage. Selenium is also known to play a role in immunocompetence. Blood selenium concent
- Self management interventions for type 2 diabetes in adult people with severe mental illness
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Apr-2016
People with severe mental illness are twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those without severe mental illness. Treatment guidelines for type 2 diabetes recommend that structured education should be integrated into routine care and should be offe
- Self management programmes for quality of life in people with stroke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Aug-2016
Stroke results from an acute lack of blood supply to the brain and becomes a chronic health condition for millions of survivors around the world. Self management can offer stroke survivors a pathway to promote their recovery. Self management programmes fo
- Self‐administered versus provider‐administered medical abortion
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Mar-2020
The advent of medical abortion has improved access to safe abortion procedures. Medical abortion procedures involve either administering mifepristone followed by misoprostol or a misoprostol-only regimen. The drugs are commonly administered in the presenc
- Self‐certification versus physician certification of sick leave for reducing sickness absence and associated costs
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-May-2019
From the societal and employers' perspectives, sickness absence has a large economic impact. Internationally, there is variation in sickness certification practices. However, in most countries a physician's certificate of illness or reduced work ability i
- Self-help and guided self-help for eating disorders
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Nov-2008
Anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED) and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) are common and disabling disorders. Many patients experience difficulties accessing specialist psychological treatments. Pure self
- Self‐management education and regular practitioner review for adults with asthma
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Jul-2002
A key component of many asthma management guidelines is the recommendation for patient education and regular medical review. A number of controlled trials have been conducted to measure the effectiveness of asthma education programmes. These programmes im
- Self‐management education for cystic fibrosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Sep-2014
Self-management education may help patients with cystic fibrosis and their families to choose, monitor and adjust treatment requirements for their illness, and also to manage the effects of illness on their lives. Although self-management education interv
- Self-management education programmes by lay leaders for people with chronic conditions
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Oct-2008
Lay-led self-management programmes are becoming widespread in the attempt to promote self-care for people with chronic conditions.
- Self-management education programmes for osteoarthritis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Jan-2014
Self-management education programmes are complex interventions specifically targeted at patient education and behaviour modification. They are designed to encourage people with chronic disease to take an active self-management role to supplement medical c
- Self‐management for bronchiectasis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Feb-2018
Bronchiectasis is a long term respiratory condition with an increasing rate of diagnosis. It is associated with persistent symptoms, repeated infective exacerbations, and reduced quality of life, imposing a burden on individuals and healthcare systems. Th
- Self‐management interventions for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Jan-2022
Self-management interventions help people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to acquire and practise the skills they need to carry out disease-specific medical regimens, guide changes in health behaviour and provide emotional support to ena
- Self‐management interventions including action plans for exacerbations versus usual care in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Aug-2017
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) self-management interventions should be structured but personalised and often multi-component, with goals of motivating, engaging and supporting the patients to positively adapt their behaviour(s) and develop s
- Self‐monitoring and self‐management of oral anticoagulation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Jul-2016
The introduction of point-of-care devices for the management of patients on oral anticoagulation allows self-testing by the patient at home. Patients who self-test can either adjust their medication according to a pre-determined dose-INR (international no
- Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are not using insulin
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Apr-2012
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has been found to be effective for patients with type 1 diabetes and for patients with type 2 diabetes using insulin. There is much debate on the effectiveness of SMBG as a tool in the self-management for patients w
- Semen preparation techniques for intrauterine insemination
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Oct-2019
Semen preparation techniques for assisted reproduction, including intrauterine insemination (IUI), were developed to select the motile morphologically normal spermatozoa. The yield of many motile, morphologically normal spermatozoa might influence treatme
- Semi‐recumbent position versus supine position for the prevention of ventilator‐associated pneumonia in adults requiring mechanical ventilation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Jan-2016
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is associated with increased mortality, prolonged length of hospital stay and increased healthcare costs in critically ill patients. Guidelines recommend a semi-recumbent position (30º to 45º) for preventing VAP among
