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
- Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicines use: an overview of systematic reviewsLISTEN TO PODCAST
- Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening
- Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours
- Framing of health information messages
- Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth
- Information interventions for orienting patients and their families to cancer care facilities
- Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs
- Interventions for enhancing medication adherence
- Interventions for enhancing consumers' online health literacy
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a diseaseLISTEN TO PODCAST
- 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
- Notification and support for people exposed to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) through medical treatment (iatrogenically)
- Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests
- Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change
- Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery
- Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications LISTEN TO PODCAST
- Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reduction LISTEN TO PODCAST
- Visual feedback of individuals' medical imaging results for changing health behaviour
- 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
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 computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
- 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
- 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
- Interventions for enhancing adherence to dietary recommendations
- 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
- Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma
- 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
- Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over the counter medications
- Presentation of aversive visual images in health communication for changing health behavior
- Training and supportive programs for palliative care volunteers in community settings
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
Interventions for communication to the healthcare provider from another source
- Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals
- Cultural competence education for health professionals
Service delivery interventions
- Involving service users as service providers for adult statutory mental health services
- Mobile phone messaging telemedicine for facilitating self management of long-term illnesses
- The effect of varying practitioner communication on patients' health status and treatment outcomes
Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group registered titles
Interventions directed to the consumer
- Automated telephone communication for primary preventive healthcare
- Automated telephone communication systems for disease management and care
- Decision support technologies for people making decisions about participation in clinical trials
- Extended discussion of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
- Goal setting for adults receiving rehabilitation for acquired disability
- Information for parents about post-mortem examination
- Interventions for enhancing medicine use by older adults prescribed multiple medicines
- Interventions for supporting palliative care volunteers in policy, organization and service settings
- Interventions, including incentives, for increasing blood donation
- interventions that promote informed consent for surgical and other invasive healthcare procedures in consumers
- Interventions that target automatic cognitive processes for changing health behaviour
- Non-pharmacological interventions preparing children and adolescents for an acute/single episode of hospital care
- Patient held guidelines for chronic disease management
- Personal financial incentives for changing habitual health behaviours
- Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
- Self-management education for people at risk of anaphylaxis (major allergy)
Interventions for communication between consumers
- Peer support interventions for family carers of adults with chronic mental or physical illness who are living at home
- Peer support interventions for parents and carers of children with complex needs
- Perceived impacts and experiences of peer support for people with chronic disease
- Self-management for improving participation in older adults with chronic conditions
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
- Electronic personal health records for enhancing care quality, safety and health self-management
- Shared medical appointments for people with physical illness
- Technology-enhanced virtual reality interventions for reducing pain and anxiety in hospitalised children
- Trained clinical interpreters for people with low proficiency in the local language