Cochrane reviews about treatment or a particular care episode
Resource Bank part 4
Cochrane reviews
- Antenatal education for self-diagnosis of the onset of active labour at term.
- Audio recordings of consultations with doctors for parents of critically sick babies.
- Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials.
- Continuous support for women during childbirth.
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.
- Early discharge with home support of gavage feeding for stable preterm infants who have not established full oral feeds.
- Education for contraceptive use by women after childbirth.
- Giving women their own case notes to carry during pregnancy.
- Home visits during pregnancy and after birth for women with an alcohol or drug problem.
- Independent living programmes for improving outcomes for young people leaving the care system.
- Individual or group antenatal education for childbirth/parenthood.
- Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth.
- Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs.
- Interventions for improving older patients' involvement in primary care episodes.
- Interventions for post-stroke fatigue.
- Interventions for preoperative smoking cessation.
- Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy.
- Interventions for reducing anxiety in women undergoing colposcopy.
- Interventions to support the decision-making process for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care.
- Methods of communicating a primary diagnosis of breast cancer to patients.
- Non-pharmacological interventions for assisting the induction of anaesthesia in children.
- Patient reminder and patient recall systems to improve immunization rates.
- Patterns of routine antenatal care for low-risk pregnancy.
- Personal assistance for adults (19-64) with both physical and intellectual impairments.
- Prenatal education for congenital toxoplasmosis.
- Pre-operative education for hip or knee replacement.
- Psychological and/or educational interventions for reducing prenatal alcohol consumption in pregnant women and women planning pregnancy.
- Postnatal parental education for optimizing infant general health and parent-infant relationships.
- Psychosocial and psychological interventions for treating antenatal depression.
- Psychosocial and psychological interventions for treating postpartum depression.
- Psychological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and distress in children and adolescents.
- Psychosocial interventions for women enrolled in alcohol treatment during pregnancy.
- Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer.
- Self-help interventions for smoking cessation.
- Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a multiple pregnancy for improving maternal and infant outcomes.
- Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies.
- Support for mothers, fathers and families after perinatal death.
- Telephone follow-up, initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home.
- Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home.
Protocols (accessible on The Cochrane Library)
- Antenatal breastfeeding education for increasing breastfeeding duration.
- Chemotherapy and supportive care versus supportive care alone in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
- Combined pharmacotherapy and psychological therapies for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- The effectiveness of policies promoting facility-based deliveries in reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income countries.
- Enhanced care by generalists for functional somatic symptoms and disorders in primary care.
- Group versus conventional antenatal care for pregnant women.
- Home-based post-discharge parental support to prevent morbidity in preterm infants.
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease.
- Interventions to support children through bereavement.
- Methods for informing people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease of their diagnosis.
- Mind-body interventions during pregnancy for preventing or treating women's anxiety.
- Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section.
- Nonpharmacological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and post-operative pain in neonates and infants.
- Notification and support for people exposed to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) through medical treatment (iatrogenically).
- One-to-one oral hygiene advice provided in a dental setting for oral health.
- Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery.
- Rehabilitation programmes for schizophrenia.
- Smoking cessation interventions for smokers with current or past depression.
- Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a pregnancy at high risk of preterm birth (excluding multiple pregnancy) to improve maternal and infant outcomes.
- Visual feedback of the individual's medical imaging results for changing health behaviours in clinical and non-clinical populations.
- Workplace interventions for low-back pain in workers.
- Workplace interventions for neck pain in workers.