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Resource Bank part 4: Interventions relating to treatment or to an episode of care

Includes immediate preparation for a particular event or episode of care:

• Educational interventions;
• Supportive interventions;
• Informational interventions.

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COMPLETED 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.
• Continuity of caregivers for care during pregnancy and childbirth.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Pre-operative education for hip or knee replacement.
• 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 (NEW).
• 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.

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UPCOMING REVIEWS: PROTOCOLS

• Antenatal breastfeeding education for increasing breastfeeding duration.
• Chemotherapy and supportive care versus supportive care alone in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NEW).
• Combined pharmacotherapy and psychological therapies for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (NEW).
• Home-based post-discharge parental support to prevent morbidity in preterm infants.
• Interventions for post-stroke fatigue.
• Interventions (non-pharmacological) for preparing children and adolescents for hospital care.
• Interventions to support children through bereavement.
• Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section.
• Nonpharmacological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and post-operative pain in neonates and infants.
• Postnatal parental education for improving family health.
• Prenatal education for congenital toxoplasmosis. 
• Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery.
• Psychological and/or educational interventions for reducing prenatal alcohol consumption in pregnant women and women planning pregnancy.
• Rehabilitation programmes for schizophrenia (NEW).
• 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.

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