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- Souvenaid for Alzheimer's disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Dec-2020
Souvenaid is a dietary supplement with a patented composition (Fortasyn Connect™)which is intended to be used by people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). It has been designed to support the formation and function of synapses in the brain, which are thought t
- Soy formula for prevention of allergy and food intolerance in infants
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Sep-2008
Allergies and food reactions in infants and children are common and may be associated with a variety of foods including adapted cow's milk formula. Soy based formulas have been used to treat infants with allergy or food intolerance. However, it is unclear
- Special care units for dementia individuals with behavioural problems
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Oct-2009
The behavioural problems of people with dementia are often considered as one of the most challenging issues in caring. Special Care Units (SCUs) have flourished since the 1980s with the aim of taking care of dementia patients, usually those with Alzheimer
- Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a multiple pregnancy for improving maternal and infant outcomes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Nov-2015
Regular antenatal care for women with a multiple pregnancy is accepted practice, and while most women have an increase in the number of antenatal visits, there is no consensus as to what constitutes optimal care. 'Specialised' antenatal clinics have been
- Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a pregnancy at high risk of preterm birth (excluding multiple pregnancy) to improve maternal and infant outcomes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Jul-2011
Amongst the risk factors for preterm birth, previous preterm delivery is a strong predictor. Specialised clinics for women with a history of spontaneous preterm delivery have been advocated as a way of improving outcomes for women and their infants.
- Specialised early intervention teams (extended time) for recent‐onset psychosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Nov-2020
Psychosis is an illness characterised by the presence of hallucinations and delusions that can cause distress or a marked change in an individual's behaviour (e.g. social withdrawal, flat or blunted affect). A first episode of psychosis (FEP) is the first
- Specialised early intervention teams for recent‐onset psychosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Nov-2020
Psychosis is an illness characterised by the presence of hallucinations and delusions that can cause distress or a marked change in an individual's behaviour (e.g. social withdrawal, flat or blunted affect). A first episode of psychosis (FEP) is the first
- Specialist breast care nurses for support of women with breast cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Feb-2021
Interventions by specialist breast cancer nurses (SBCNs) aim to support women and help them cope with the impact of the disease on their quality of life.
- Specialist epilepsy nurses for treating epilepsy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 25-Oct-2008
Epilepsy is a common serious neurological condition with a 0.5% prevalence. As a result of the perceived deficiencies and suggestions to improve the quality of care offered to people with epilepsy, two models of service provision have been suggested by re
- Specialist home‐based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Jun-2013
Specialist paediatric home-based nursing services have been proposed as a cost-effective means of reducing distress resulting from hospital admissions, while enhancing primary care and reducing length of hospital stay. This review is an update of our orig
- Specialist nurses in diabetes mellitus
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Apr-2003
The patient with diabetes has many different learning needs relating to diet, monitoring, and treatments. In many health care systems specialist nurses provide much of these needs, usually aiming to empower patients to self-manage their diabetes. The pres
- Specialist nursing interventions for inflammatory bowel disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Oct-2009
The number, type and roles of specialist nurses dedicated to the care and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease is increasing. Despite this increase, there has been little evidence to date to demonstrate the effectiveness of specialist nu
- Specialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings.
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Nov-2008
Specialist medical practitioners have conducted clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings for a variety of reasons in many different countries. Such clinics have been regarded as an important policy option for increasing the accessibility and ef
- Specialist teams for neonatal transport to neonatal intensive care units for prevention of morbidity and mortality
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Oct-2015
Maternal antenatal transfers provide better neonatal outcomes. However, there will inevitably be some infants who require acute transport to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Because of this, many institutions develop services to provide neonatal tra
- Specially formulated foods for treating children with moderate acute malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Dec-2013
Moderate acute malnutrition, also called moderate wasting, affects around 10% of children under five years of age in low- and middle-income countries. There are different approaches to addressing malnutrition with prepared foods in these settings; for exa
- Specific allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of atopic eczema
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Feb-2016
Specific allergen immunotherapy (SIT) is a treatment that may improve disease severity in people with atopic eczema (AE) by inducing immune tolerance to the relevant allergen. A high quality systematic review has not previously assessed the efficacy and s
- Spectacle correction versus no spectacles for prevention of strabismus in hyperopic children
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Apr-2020
Hyperopia in infancy requires accommodative effort to bring images into focus. Prolonged accommodative effort has been associated with an increased risk of strabismus. Strabismus may result in asthenopia and intermittent diplopia, and makes near work task
- Spectral entropy monitoring for adults and children undergoing general anaesthesia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Mar-2016
Anaesthetic drugs during general anaesthesia are titrated according to sympathetic or somatic responses to surgical stimuli. It is now possible to measure depth of anaesthesia using electroencephalography (EEG). Entropy, an EEG-based monitor can be used t
- Speech and language therapy for aphasia following stroke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Jun-2016
Aphasia is an acquired language impairment following brain damage that affects some or all language modalities: expression and understanding of speech, reading, and writing. Approximately one third of people who have a stroke experience aphasia.
- Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Jul-2019
Cough both protects and clears the airway. Cough has three phases: breathing in (inspiration), closure of the glottis, and a forced expiratory effort. Chronic cough has a negative, far-reaching impact on quality of life. Few effective medical treatments f
