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- Communication skills training for healthcare professionals working with people who have cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Apr-2015
This is an updated version of a review that was originally published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2004, Issue 2. People with cancer, their families and carers have a high prevalence of psychological stress which may be minimised by ef
- Community animal health services for improving household wealth and health status of low income farmers
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Apr-2011
Community animal health services in low-income countries aim to improve the health of animals and directly improve the wealth and health or livelihood of their owners. These services have been promoted by aid organizations since the 1970s.
- Community coalition-driven interventions to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Jun-2015
Racial and ethnic disparities in health status are pervasive at all stages of the life cycle. One approach to reducing health disparities involves mobilizing community coalitions that include representatives of target populations to plan and implement int
- Community interventions for preventing smoking in young people
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-May-2013
Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the world. Decisions to smoke are often made within a broad social context and therefore community interventions using coordinated, multi-component programmes may be effective in influ
- Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-Jul-2008
Since smoking behaviour is determined by social context, the best way to reduce the prevalence of smoking may be to use community-wide programmes which use multiple channels to provide reinforcement, support and norms for not smoking.
- Community mental health teams (CMHTs) for people with severe mental illnesses and disordered personality
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Feb-2010
Closure of asylums and institutions for the mentally ill, coupled with government policies focusing on reducing the number of hospital beds for people with severe mental illness in favour of providing care in a variety of non-hospital settings, underpins
- Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Aug-2008
Smoking cessation is a potentially appropriate role for community pharmacists because they are encouraged to advise on the correct use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products and to provide behavioural support to aid smoking cessation.
- Community screening for visual impairment in the elderly
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-May-2008
While the aims of multicomponent screening of older people are broad, any benefit arising from the inclusion of a vision component in the assessment will necessarily be dependent on improving vision.
- Community wide interventions for increasing physical activity
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Jan-2015
Multi-strategic community wide interventions for physical activity are increasingly popular but their ability to achieve population level improvements is unknown.
- Community-based intervention packages for reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and improving neonatal outcomes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Mar-2015
While maternal, infant and under-five child mortality rates in developing countries have declined significantly in the past two to three decades, newborn mortality rates have reduced much more slowly. While it is recognised that almost half of the newborn
- Community-based interventions for the prevention of burns and scalds in children
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Mar-2012
Burns and scalds are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Successful counter-measures to prevent burn and scald-related injury have been identified. However, evidence indicating the successful roll-out of these counter-measures into
- Community-based supplementary feeding for promoting the growth of children under five years of age in low and middle income countries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-May-2012
Supplementary feeding is defined as the provision of extra food to children or families beyond the normal ration of their home diets. The impact of food supplementation on child growth merits careful evaluation in view of the reliance of many states and n
- Comparative efficacy of epidural, subarachnoid, and intracerebroventricular opioids in patients with pain due to cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Oct-2015
Since the 1970s, when endogenous opioids and opioid receptors were first isolated in the central nervous system, attempts have been made to optimize opioid therapy by delivering the medication centrally rather than systemically. Although the vast majority
- Comparison of a restrictive versus liberal red cell transfusion policy for patients with myelodysplasia, aplastic anaemia, and other congenital bone marrow failure disorders
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Sep-2015
Bone marrow failure disorders include a heterogenous group of disorders, of which myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), forms the largest subgroup. MDS is predominantly a disease of the elderly, with many elderly people managed conservatively with regular allog
- Comparison of animal‐derived surfactants for the prevention and treatment of respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 21-Dec-2015
Animal-derived surfactants have been shown to have several advantages over the first generation synthetic surfactants and are the most commonly used surfactant preparations. The animal-derived surfactants in clinical use are minced or lavaged and modified
- Comparison of antiepileptic drugs, no treatment, or placebo for children with benign epilepsy with centro temporal spikes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Aug-2014
Benign Epilepsy with Centro Temporal Spikes (BECTS) is a common epilepsy syndrome with onset in childhood which almost always remits by adolescence. It is characterised by focal seizures associated with motor signs and somatosensory symptoms, at times pro
- Comparison of chemotherapy including escalated BEACOPP versus chemotherapy including ABVD for patients with early unfavourable or advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Jul-2011
There are two different international standards for the treatment of early unfavourable and advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma (HL): chemotherapy with escalated BEACOPP (bleomycin/etoposide/doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide/vincristine/procarbazine/prednisone) re
- Comparison of different platelet count thresholds to guide administration of prophylactic platelet transfusion for preventing bleeding in people with haematological disorders after myelosuppressive chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Nov-2015
Platelet transfusions are used in modern clinical practice to prevent and treat bleeding in people who are thrombocytopenic due to bone marrow failure. Although considerable advances have been made in platelet transfusion therapy in the last 40 years, som
- Comparison of different regimens of proton pump inhibitors for acute peptic ulcer bleeding
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Jun-2013
Treatment with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) improves clinical outcomes in patients with peptic ulcer bleeding. However, the optimal dose and route of administration of PPIs remains controversial.
- Comparison of routes for achieving parenteral access with a focus on the management of patients with Ebola virus disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-May-2015
Dehydration is an important cause of death in patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). Parenteral fluids are often required in patients with fluid requirements in excess of their oral intake. The peripheral intravenous route is the most commonly used meth
