Health Science

Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group

Resource Bank part 5: Interventions to inform, promote participation or improve the responsiveness of care

Includes the following:

• Patient-held or hand-held records;
• Interventions to improve the continuity and responsiveness of care.

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COMPLETED 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.
• Co-ordinated multidisciplinary approaches for inpatient rehabilitation of older patients with proximal femoral fractures.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Home-based support for disadvantaged adult mothers.
• Home-based support for disadvantaged teenage mothers.
• Hospital at home versus in-patient hospital care.
• 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.
• Institutional versus at-home long term care for functionally dependent older people.
• Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
• Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors.
• 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.

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• Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material.
• Multidisciplinary team interventions for delirium in patients with chronic cognitive impairment.
• Multisystemic therapy for social, emotional, and behavioral problems in youth aged 10-17.
• On-site mental health workers in primary care: effects on professional practice.
• Organisational infrastructures to promote evidence based nursing practice.
• Organised inpatient (stroke unit) care for stroke.
• 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 (NEW).
• 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.
• Specialist home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses.
• 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.
• Traditional birth attendant training for improving health behaviours and pregnancy outcomes.
• Training health professionals in smoking cessation.

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UPCOMING REVIEWS: PROTOCOLS

• 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.
• Continuous quality improvement: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes.
• Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours (NEW).
• Educational interventions for improving the communication skills of general practice trainees in the clinical consultation.
• Electronic access to health information and/or knowledge by health professionals to improve practice and patient care.
• High feedback versus low feedback of routine prenatal ultrasound for improving outcomes (NEW).
• 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.
• Home versus hospital or satellite unit haemodialysis for end-stage renal failure.
• Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes.
• Improving surgical practice - a systematic review of effective education strategies to improve surgical technical skills in operative procedures. 
• Initiating and maintaining physical activity for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• Interventions aimed at improving professional adherence to guidelines for prevention of device-related infections.
• 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 increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in under-served communities.
• Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals 

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• 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 question formulation in professional practice self-directed learning (NEW).
• 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.
• Negative versus positive framing of health information.         
• Nutritional screening for improving professional practice for patient outcomes in hospital and primary care settings.
• On-screen computer reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
• Organisational and professional interventions to promote the uptake of evidence in emergency care: Effects on professional practice and health outcomes. 

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• 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.
• Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
• Promoting patient uptake and adherence in cardiac rehabilitation.
• Provider training and experience for people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Public release of performance data.
• Smart home technologies for health and social care support.
• Special care units for dementia individuals with behavioural problems.
• Specialist nursing interventions for inflammatory bowel disease.
• The impact of health financing strategies on access to health services in low and middle income countries. 
• Treatment delivery using information and communication technology for people with schizophrenia.
• Using different statistical formats for presenting health information.   
• Written information about medicines for consumers.

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