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- Music for pain relief
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Nov-2015
The efficacy of music for the treatment of pain has not been established.
- Music therapy for depression
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Nov-2017
Depression is a highly prevalent mood disorder that is characterised by persistent low mood, diminished interest, and loss of pleasure. Music therapy may be helpful in modulating moods and emotions. An update of the 2008 Cochrane review was needed to impr
- Music therapy for people with autism spectrum disorder
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Jun-2014
The central impairments of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affect social interaction and communication. Music therapy uses musical experiences and the relationships that develop through them to enable communication and expression, thus attempti
- Music therapy for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia‐like disorders
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-May-2017
Music therapy is a therapeutic approach that uses musical interaction as a means of communication and expression. Within the area of serious mental disorders, the aim of the therapy is to help people improve their emotional and relational competencies, an
- Music‐based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Jul-2018
Dementia is a clinical syndrome with a number of different causes which is characterised by deterioration in cognitive, behavioural, social and emotional functions. Pharmacological interventions are available but have limited effect to treat many of the s
- Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy for localised and locally advanced prostate cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Jun-2009
Hormone therapy for early prostate cancer has demonstrated an improvement in clinical and pathological variables, but not always an improvement in overall survival. We performed a systematic review of both adjuvant and neo-adjuvant hormone therapy combine
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery versus surgery followed by chemotherapy for initial treatment in advanced ovarian epithelial cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Jul-2021
Epithelial ovarian cancer presents at an advanced stage in the majority of women. These women require a combination of surgery and chemotherapy for optimal treatment. Conventional treatment has been to perform surgery first and then give chemotherapy. How
- Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for invasive bladder cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Jan-2012
Controversy exists as to whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves survival in patients with invasive bladder cancer, despite randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving over 3000 patients.
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced cervix cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Apr-2004
The impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer remains uncertain.
- Neuroreflexotherapy for non-specific low-back pain
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Jan-2011
Among the wide range of therapeutic alternatives proposed for the management of low-back pain (LBP), a less widely used technique from Spain, called neuroreflexotherapy (NRT) has claimed to show very favourable results, mainly in patients with chronic low
- Nicergoline for dementia and other age associated forms of cognitive impairment
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Oct-2001
Nicergoline is an ergot derivative currently in use in over fifty countries for more than three decades, for the treatment of cognitive, affective, and behavioral disorders of older people. It was initially considered as a vasoactive drug and mainly presc
- Nicotine vaccines for smoking cessation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Nov-2012
By reducing the amount of nicotine that reaches the brain when a person smokes a cigarette, nicotine vaccines may help people to stop smoking or to prevent recent quitters from relapsing.
- Non-invasive physical treatments for chronic/recurrent headache
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Aug-2019
Non-invasive physical treatments are often used to treat common types of chronic/recurrent headache.
- Noninvasive positive‐pressure ventilation as a weaning strategy for intubated adults with respiratory failure
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Dec-2013
Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) provides ventilatory support without the need for an invasive airway. Interest has emerged in using NPPV to facilitate earlier removal of an endotracheal tube and to decrease complications associated with p
- Non‐invasive ventilation for the management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure due to exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Jul-2017
Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) with bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) is commonly used to treat patients admitted to hospital with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (AHRF) secondary to an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary dis
- Nonlatex versus latex male condoms for contraception
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Mar-2015
The male condom, which consists of a thin sheath placed over the glans and shaft of the penis, is designed to prevent pregnancy by providing a physical barrier against the deposition of semen into the vagina during intercourse. Beginning in the 1990s, non
- Non‐nutritive sucking for increasing physiologic stability and nutrition in preterm infants
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Oct-2016
Non-nutritive sucking (NNS) is used during gavage feeding and in the transition from gavage to breast/bottle feeding in preterm infants to improve the development of sucking behavior and the digestion of enteral feedings.
- Non‐pharmacological interventions for assisting the induction of anaesthesia in children
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Jul-2015
Induction of general anaesthesia can be distressing for children. Non-pharmacological methods for reducing anxiety and improving co-operation may avoid the adverse effects of preoperative sedation.
- Non‐pharmacological interventions for breathlessness in advanced stages of malignant and non‐malignant diseases
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Nov-2013
- Non‐pharmacological interventions for spatial neglect or inattention following stroke and other non‐progressive brain injury
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Jul-2021
People with spatial neglect after stroke or other brain injury have difficulty attending to one side of space. Various rehabilitation interventions have been used, but evidence of their benefit is unclear.
