Cochrane reviews about informing, promoting participation and improving care responsiveness
Resource Bank part 5
Cochrane reviews
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians.
- Case management for persons with substance use disorders.
- Clinical service organisation for heart failure.
- Communication skills training for health care professionals working with cancer patients, their families and/or carers
- Computerised advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice.
- Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) versus hospital or home haemodialysis for end-stage renal disease in adults.
- Critical incident audit and feedback to improve perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity.
- Dietary advice given by a dietitian versus other health professional or self-help resources to reduce blood cholesterol.
- Discharge planning from hospital to home.
- Early discharge hospital at home.
- Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led inpatient units.
- Effects of interventions aimed at changing the length of primary care physicians' consultation.
- Electronic access to health information and/or knowledge by health professionals to improve practice and patient care.
- Expanding the roles of outpatient pharmacists: effects on health services utilisation, costs, and patient outcomes.
- Family-centred care for children in hospital.
- Guidelines in professions allied to medicine.
- Home-based HIV voluntary counselling and testing in developing countries.
- Improving health professionals' management and the organisation of care for overweight and obese people.
- Incentives and disincentives to participation by clinicians in randomised controlled trial.
- Indigenous Healthcare Worker involvement for Indigenous adults and children with asthma.
- In-hospital care pathways for stroke.
- Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors.
- Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals.
- Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations.
- Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients.
- Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care.
- Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care.
- Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care.
- Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings.
- Interventions to promote collaboration between nurses and doctors.
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care.
- Length of hospitalisation for people with severe mental illness.
- Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation.
- Medical day hospital care for the elderly versus alternative forms of care.
- Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material.
- Multidisciplinary care for adults with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or motor neuron disease.
- Multisystemic therapy for social, emotional, and behavioral problems in youth aged 10-17.
- The effects of on-screen, point of care computer reminders on processes and outcomes of care.
- On-site mental health workers delivering psychological therapy and psychosocial interventions to patients in primary care: effects on the professional practice of primary care providers.
- Organisational infrastructures to promote evidence based nursing practice.
- Organised inpatient (stroke unit) care for stroke.
- Organising health care services for persons with an intellectual disability.
- Outcome measures and needs assessment tools for schizophrenia and related disorders.
- Outreach and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the prevention of Intensive Care admission and death of critically ill adult patients on general hospital wards.
- Patient held clinical information for people with psychotic illnesses.
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co-payment on rational drug use.
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies.
- Physician advice for smoking cessation.
- Primary care based clinics for asthma.
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Routine hospital admission versus out-patient or home care in children at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Setting and organization of care for persons living with HIV/AIDS.
- Services for helping acute stroke patients avoid hospital admission.
- Smart home technologies for health and social care support.
- Special care units for dementia individuals with behavioural problems.
- Specialist home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses.
- Specialist nursing interventions for inflammatory bowel disease.
- Specialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings.
- Strategies for integrating primary health services in middle- and low-income countries at the point of delivery.
- Support for breastfeeding mothers.
- Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care.
- Tailored interventions to overcome identified barriers to change: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Target payments in primary care: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Teaching critical appraisal skills in health care settings.
- Telemedicine versus face to face patient care: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Telephone consultation and triage: effects on health care use and patient satisfaction.
- The impact of conditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in low and middle income countries.
- Traditional birth attendant training for improving health behaviours and pregnancy outcomes.
- Training health professionals in smoking cessation.
- Written information about individual medicines for consumers.
Protocols (accessible on The Cochrane Library)
- Case management: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Changes in out-of-pocket payments on utilisation of health care services.
- Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs.
- Collaborative care for depression and anxiety problems in primary care.
- Community clinics versus home management for leg ulcer treatment.
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital.
- Computer-generated paper reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Consultation liaison in primary practice for mental health problems.
- Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicine use: an overview of Cochrane reviews.
- Continuous quality improvement: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes.
- Educational interventions for improving the communication skills of general practice trainees in the clinical consultation.
- End-of-life care pathways for improving outcomes in caring for the dying.
- Effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions to improve cancer pain management.
- Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours.
- Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals.
- Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals.
- Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients.
- Email for the management of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders.
- High feedback versus low feedback of routine prenatal ultrasound for improving outcomes.
- Home-based care for reducing morbidity and mortality in people infected with HIV/AIDS.
- Home-based palliative care for adults with cancer.
- Home-based versus centre-based cardiac rehabilitation.
- Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes.
- The impact of health financing strategies on access to health services in low and middle income countries.
- Improving surgical practice - a systematic review of effective education strategies to improve surgical technical skills in operative procedures.
- Interventions aimed at improving professional adherence to guidelines for prevention of device-related infections.
- Interventions for improving coverage of child immunization in low-income and middle-income countries.
- Interventions for improving the adoption of shared decision making by healthcare professionals.
- Interventions for improving palliative care for older people living in nursing care homes
- Interventions for promoting the use of advance directives for end-of-life decisions in adults.
- Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital.
- Interventions for reducing preventable drug-related hospital admissions or preventable drug-related morbidity in primary care.
- Interventions to improve continuity of care in the follow-up of patients with cancer.
- Interventions to improve question formulation in professional practice self-directed learning.
- Interventions to increase clinical incident reporting in health care.
- Interventions to increase the use of screening and brief intervention programmes for hazardous alcohol consumption by patients in primary care settings.
- Interventions to reduce waiting lists for elective procedures.
- Involving service users as researchers for the evaluation of adult statutory mental health services.
- Involving service users as service providers for adult statutory mental health services.
- Involving service users as trainers for professionals working in adult statutory mental health services.
- Local consensus processes: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Manual paper reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
- Mobile phone messaging for communicating results of medical investigations.
- Mobile phone messaging for preventive health care.
- Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled healthcare appointments.
- Mobile phone messaging telemedicine for facilitating self management of long-term illnesses.
- Negative versus positive framing of health information.
- Nutritional screening for improving professional practice for patient outcomes in hospital and primary care settings.
- Organisational and professional interventions to promote the uptake of evidence in emergency care: Effects on professional practice and health outcomes.
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects on rational drug use, an overview of 13 reviews.
- Primary and community health care professionals in hospital emergency departments: effects on process and outcome of care and resources.
- Professional interventions for general practitioners on the management of musculoskeletal conditions.
- Promoting patient uptake and adherence in cardiac rehabilitation.
- Provider training and experience for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Public release of performance data.
- Specialist nursing interventions for inflammatory bowel disease.
- Telephone interventions for symptom management in adults with cancer.
- Treatment delivery using information and communication technology for people with schizophrenia.
- Using different statistical formats for presenting health information.