Cochrane reviews about chronic illness
Resource Bank part 2
Cochrane reviews
- Action plans for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness.
- Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programmes for alcohol dependence.
- Assertive community treatment for people with severe mental disorders.
- Back schools for non-specific low-back pain.
- Care delivery and self-management strategies for adults with epilepsy.
- Case management for people with severe mental disorders.
- Clinical pathways for chronic cough in children.
- Community mental health teams (CMHTs) for people with severe mental illnesses and disordered personality.
- Complex behavioural and educational interventions for nocturnal enuresis in children.
- Compliance therapy for schizophrenia.
- Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness.
- Contracts between patients and healthcare practitioners for improving patients' adherence to treatment, prevention and health promotion activities.
- Culturally appropriate health education for type 2 diabetes mellitus in ethnic minority groups
- Culture-specific programs for children and adults from minority groups who have asthma.
- Delayed antibiotics for respiratory infections.
- Dietary advice for illness-related malnutrition in adults.
- Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis.
- Early intervention for psychosis.
- Educational interventions for asthma in children.
- Educational, supportive and behavioural interventions to improve usage of continuous positive airway pressure machines for adults with obstructive sleep apnoea.
- Education interventions for adults who attend the emergency room for acute asthma.
- Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of counselling in primary care.
- Effectiveness of shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in chronic disease management.
- Effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation intervention on the return to work and employment of persons with multiple sclerosis.
- Exercise for depression.
- Exercise therapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
- Family intervention for schizophrenia.
- Family support in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected persons.
- Group based training for self-management strategies in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Home care by outreach nursing for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Individual patient education for low back pain.
- Individual patient education for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Information provision for stroke patients and their caregivers.
- Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease.
- Interventions for apathy after traumatic brain injury.
- Interventions for drug-using offenders in the courts, secure establishments and the community.
- Interventions for educating children who are at risk of asthma-related emergency department attendance.
- Interventions for enhancing medication adherence.
- Interventions for helping people recognise early signs of recurrence in bipolar disorder.
- Interventions for improving adherence to ocular hypotensive therapy.
- Interventions for improving adherence to treatment in patients with high blood pressure in ambulatory settings.
- Interventions for improving adherence to treatment recommendations in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about their cancer.
- Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about a family member's cancer.
- Interventions to improve adherence to lipid lowering medication.
- Interventions used to improve control of blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
- Life skills programmes for chronic mental illnesses.
- Limited (information only) patient education programs for adults with asthma.
- Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for neck and shoulder pain among working age adults.
- Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for subacute low-back pain among working age adults.
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for adults with multiple sclerosis.
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for fibromyalgia and musculoskeletal pain in working age adults.
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at the hip and knee in chronic arthropathy.
- Non-invasive interventions for improving well-being and quality of life in patients with lung cancer.
- Options for self-management education for adults with asthma.
- Orientation and mobility training for adults with low vision.
- Parent-initiated oral corticosteroid therapy for intermittent wheezing illnesses in children.
- Parent-mediated early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder.
- Patient education for adults with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Patient education for preventing diabetic foot ulceration.
- Patient support and education for promoting adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS.
- Personal assistance for adults (19-64) with both physical and intellectual impairments.
- Personal assistance for adults (19-64) with physical impairments.
- Personal assistance for children and adolescents (0-18) with both physical and intellectual impairments.
- Personal assistance for children and adolescents (0-18) with intellectual impairments.
- Personal assistance for children and adolescents (0-18) with physical impairments.
- Personal assistance for older adults (65+) without dementia.
- Physical activity programs for persons with dementia.
- Psychological interventions to improve adherence to oral hygiene instructions in adults with peridontal diseases.
- Prompts to encourage appointment attendance for people with serious mental illness.
- Psychoeducation for schizophrenia.
- Psychological and educational interventions for atopic eczema in children.
- Psychosocial interventions for erectile dysfunction.
- Psychosocial interventions for people with both severe mental illness and substance abuse.
- Psychosocial interventions for reducing fatigue during cancer treatment in adults.
- Psychosocial interventions for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease.
- Psychotherapeutic interventions for cannabis abuse and/or dependence in outpatient settings.
- Rehabilitation for distal radial fractures in adults.
- Rehabilitation for older people in long term care.
- Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications.
- Reminder systems and late patient tracers in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis.
- Respite care for people with dementia and their carers.
- Self-help and guided self-help for eating disorders.
- Self-management education and regular practitioner review for adults with asthma.
- Self-management education for adults with epilepsy.
- Self-management education for children with epilepsy.
- Self-management education for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Self-management education programmes by lay leaders for people with chronic conditions.
- Services for reducing duration of hospital care for acute stroke patients.
- Specialist breast care nurses for supportive care of women with breast cancer.
- Specialist epilepsy nurses for treating epilepsy.
- Specialist nurses in diabetes mellitus.
- Strategies to improve adherence and acceptability of hormonal methods for contraception.
- Supported housing for people with severe mental disorders.
- Therapeutic communities for substance related disorder.
- Twenty-four hour care for schizophrenia.
- Unit-dose packaged drugs for treating malaria.
- Written action plans for asthma in children.
- Written individualised management plans for asthma in children and adults.
Protocols (accessible on The Cochrane Library)
- Chronic disease management programs for adults with asthma.
- Cognitive reframing for carers of people with dementia.
- Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicine use: an overview of Cochrane reviews.
- Computer-based interventions for weight loss or weight maintenance in overweight or obese people.
- Consultation letters for medically unexplained physical symptoms.
- Early referral to specialist nephrology services for preventing the progression to end-stage kidney disease.
- Educational interventions for the management of cancer-related fatigue in adults.
- Education and counselling for promoting adherence to the treatment of active tuberculosis.
- Exercise for older depressed people.
- Family based interventions to improve outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Functional analysis-based interventions for challenging behaviour in dementia.
- Group visits as part of ongoing care for improving health.
- Home based, parent mediated, early educational intervention for children with, or biologically at risk of, developmental disability.
- Incentives for improving patient adherence to anti-tuberculosis treatment.
- Information and support interventions for informal caregivers of people with dementia.
- Intermittent drug techniques for schizophrenia.
- Interventions for adherence to pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Interventions for fatigue management after traumatic brain injury.
- Interventions for helping people recognise early signs of recurrence in depression.
- Interventions for improving the appropriate use of imaging in people with musculoskeletal conditions.
- Interventions for smoking cessation and reduction in individuals with schizophrenia.
- Interventions to improve adherence to exercise for chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults.
- Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people.
- Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings.
- Interventions to improve the management of asthma in primary care settings.
- Lifestyle changes in overweight women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
- Life-style modification, non-pharmacological and pharmacological strategies for obese subfertile women.
- Media-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy and behavioural therapy (self-help) for anxiety disorders in adults.
- Mobile phone messaging - a telemedicine for people with diabetes mellitus.
- Multidimensional rehabilitation programmes for adult cancer survivors.
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation and monodisciplinary rehabilitation for visually impaired adults.
- Occupational therapy for cognitive impairment in stroke patients.
- Parent training interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- Parent training support for intellectually disabled parents.
- Peer-based interventions for reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected women.
- Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases.
- Physical rehabilitation involving goal setting for older people living in the community.
- Psychosocial interventions for the maintenance of weight loss in obese adults.
- Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
- Psychosocial interventions to improve quality of life and emotional wellbeing for recently diagnosed cancer patients.
- Self monitoring and self-management of oral anticoagulation.
- Self-management education for cystic fibrosis.
- Self-management programme for ankylosing spondylitis.
- Shared decision making interventions for people with mental health conditions.
- Stroke liaison workers for stroke patients and carers.
- Structured telephone support or telemonitoring programs for patients with chronic heart failure.
- Substitution of nurses for doctors in managing HIV/AIDS antiretroviral therapy.
- Telehealthcare for asthma.
- Telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Telephone follow-up for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Theory-based behavioural interventions for prediabetic state and people with diabetes mellitus
- Training to recognise the early signs of recurrence in schizophrenia.
- Vocational rehabilitation for acquired brain injury in adults.
- Workplace interventions for treatment of occupational asthma.
- Written emotional disclosure for asthma.