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- Atrial natriuretic peptide for preventing and treating acute kidney injury
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Oct-2009
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in hospitalised patients and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite recent advances, outcomes have not substantially changed in the last four decades. Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) has shown
- Atypical antipsychotics for aggression and psychosis in Alzheimer's disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Apr-2012
Aggression, agitation or psychosis occur in the majority of people with dementia at some point in the illness. There have been a number of trials of atypical antipsychotics to treat these symptoms over the last five years, and a systematic review is neede
- Atypical antipsychotics for disruptive behaviour disorders in children and youths
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Aug-2017
This is an update of the original Cochrane Review, last published in 2012 (Loy 2012). Children and youths with disruptive behaviour disorders may present to health services, where they may be treated with atypical antipsychotics. There is increasing usage
- Atypical antipsychotics for people with both schizophrenia and depression
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Dec-2011
Many people (up to 50%) with schizophrenia also have co-morbid depression. It has been suggested that new atypical antipsychotic drugs are beneficial for people with the two diagnoses.
- Atypical antipsychotics for psychosis in adolescents
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Oct-2013
Schizophrenia often presents in adolescence, but current treatment guidelines are based largely on studies of adults with psychosis. Over the past decade, the number of studies on treatment of adolescent-onset psychosis has increased. The current systemat
- Audio recordings of consultations with doctors for parents of critically sick babies
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Nov-2008
Family centred care is an important part of neonatal intensive care. Ensuring effective communication in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a challenge but is crucial to the implementation of family centred care. Providing parents in NICU with aud
- Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-May-2014
Informed consent is a critical component of clinical research. Different methods of presenting information to potential participants of clinical trials may improve the informed consent process. Audio-visual interventions (presented, for example, on the In
- Audit and feedback versus alternative strategies: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Nov-2008
Audit and feedback has been identified as having the potential to change the practice of health care professionals.
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Jun-2012
Audit and feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve professional practice either on its own or as a component of multifaceted quality improvement interventions. This is based on the belief that healthcare professionals are prompted to modify their
- Audit filters for improving processes of care and clinical outcomes in trauma systems
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Oct-2009
Traumatic injuries represent a considerable public health burden with significant personal and societal costs. The care of the severely injured patient in a trauma system progresses along a continuum that includes numerous interventions being provided by
- Auditory integration training and other sound therapies for autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Dec-2011
Auditory integration therapy was developed as a technique for improving abnormal sound sensitivity in individuals with behavioural disorders including autism spectrum disorders. Other sound therapies bearing similarities to auditory integration therapy in
- Auditory‐verbal therapy for promoting spoken language development in children with permanent hearing impairments
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Mar-2014
Congenital or early-acquired hearing impairment poses a major barrier to the development of spoken language and communication. Early detection and effective (re)habilitative interventions are essential for parents and families who wish their children to a
- Augmentation of cognitive and behavioural therapies (CBT) with d-cycloserine for anxiety and related disorders
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-May-2015
A significant number of patients who suffer with anxiety and related disorders (that is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social anxiety disorder (SAnD), panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PD), specific phobia (SPh) and obsessive compulsive
- Aural toilet (ear cleaning) for chronic suppurative otitis media
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Sep-2020
Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), sometimes referred to as chronic otitis media (COM), is a chronic inflammation and often polymicrobial infection (involving more than one micro-organism) of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, characterised by ear d
- Auranofin versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Apr-2000
Auranofin is an oral gold compound used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The use of auranofin has declined in the past few years, perhaps due in part to conflicting results from different studies.
- Auricular acupuncture for cocaine dependence
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Mar-2008
Auricular acupuncture (insertion of acupuncture into a number, usually five, of specific points in the ear) is a widely-used treatment for cocaine dependence.
- Autogenic drainage for airway clearance in cystic fibrosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Dec-2021
Autogenic drainage is an airway clearance technique that was developed by Jean Chevaillier in 1967. The technique is characterised by breathing control using expiratory airflow to mobilise secretions from smaller to larger airways. Secretions are cleared
- Autoinflation for hearing loss associated with otitis media with effusion
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-May-2013
This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in The Cochrane Library in Issue 4, 2006.
- Autologous blood and platelet‐rich plasma injection therapy for lateral elbow pain
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Sep-2021
Autologous whole blood or platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections are commonly used to treat lateral elbow pain (also known as tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis or epicondylalgia). Based on animal models and observational studies, these injections may m
- Autologous cells derived from different sources and administered using different regimens for 'no‐option' critical lower limb ischaemia patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Aug-2018
Revascularisation is the gold standard therapy for patients with critical limb ischaemia (CLI). In over 30% of patients who are not suitable for or have failed previous revascularisation therapy (the 'no-option' CLI patients), limb amputation is eventuall
