Consumers and Communication Group reviews published on The Cochrane Library
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Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group reviews
Interventions directed to the consumer
- Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
- Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening
- Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth
- Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs
- Interventions for enhancing medication adherence
- Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport
- Interventions to support the decision-making process for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care
- Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests
- Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change
- Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications
- Visual feedback of individuals' medical imaging results for changing health behaviour [COMING SOON]
- Written information about individual medicines for consumers
- Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home
Interventions from the consumer
Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers
- Contracts between patients and healthcare practitioners for improving patients' adherence to treatment, prevention and health promotion activities
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions
- 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 for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors
- Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer
- Shared decision making interventions for people with mental health conditions [COMING SOON]
Interventions for communication between consumers
Interventions for communication to the healthcare provider from another source
Service delivery interventions
- Family-centred care for children in hospital
- Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease
- Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions
- Telephone follow-up, initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home
Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group protocols
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Interventions directed to the consumer
- Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicine use: an overview of Cochrane reviews
- Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours
- Email for communicating results of medical investigations
- Email for the management of healthcare appointments and reminders for attendance
- Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion
- Health education material for minor acute illness
- Information interventions for orienting patients and their families to cancer care facilities [COMING SOON]
- Interventions for enhancing the skills of consumers to find, evaluate and use online health information
- Interventions for improving understanding and minimising the psychological impact of screening
- Interventions for promoting the use of advance directives for end-of-life decisions in adults
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
- 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
- Negative versus positive framing of health information
- Notification and support for people exposed to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) through medical treatment (iatrogenically)
- Physical rehabilitation involving goal setting for older people living in the community
- Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery
- Using different statistical formats for presenting health information
Interventions from the consumer
- Involving service users as researchers for the evaluation of adult statutory mental health services
- Involving service users as trainers for professionals working in adult statutory mental health services
Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers
- Educational interventions to improve the communication skills of general practice trainees in the clinical consultation
- Email for clinical communication between patients and healthcare professionals
Interventions for communication between consumers
- Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases
- Shared decision making interventions for people with mental health conditions
Interventions for communication to the healthcare provider from another source
- Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals
Service delivery interventions
- Group visits as part of ongoing care for improving health
- Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
- Involving service users as service providers for adult statutory mental health services
- Mobile phone messaging telemedicine for facilitating self management of long-term illnesses
Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group registered titles
Interventions directed to the consumer
- Information for parents about post-mortem examination
- Interventions for enhacing adherence to dietary recommendations
- Interventions for enhancing medicine use by older adults prescribed multiple medicines
- Interventions for promoting informed decision-making by patients and/or surrogate decision makers on resuscitation orders in adults
- Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma
- Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about recommended medications
- Non-pharmacological interventions preparing children and adolescents for an acute/single episode of hospital care
- Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
- Self-management education for people at risk of anaphylaxis (major allergy)
Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers
- Communication with and support for people with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and their families and carers
Service delivery interventions
- Effects of varying communication in the patient-practitioner relationship
- Electronic personal health records for enhancing care quality, safety and health self-management