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Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group

Reviews and Protocols

The Group's main work is to coordinate the production of systematic reviews for publication on The Cochrane Library.

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Cochrane Reviews

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• Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
• 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
• Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening
• Family-centred care for children in hospital
• Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth
• Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease
• Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs
• Interventions for enhancing medication adherence
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• 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 older patients' involvement in primary care episodes
• Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors
• Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations
• Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport (UPDATED)
• Interventions to support the decision-making process for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care
• Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material
• Peer support telephone calls for improving health (COMING SOON)
• Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests
• Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions
• Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change (UPDATED)
• Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer (UPDATED)
• Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications
• Self-management education programmes by lay leaders for people with chronic conditions
• 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

Cochrane Protocols

Protocols can only be viewed on The Cochrane Library.

• Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicine use: an overview of Cochrane reviews (COMING SOON)
• Educational interventions to improve the communication skills of general practice trainees in the clinical consultation
• Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours (NEW)
• Group visits as part of ongoing care for improving health
• Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
• Interventions for enhancing the skills of consumers to find, evaluate and use online health information
• Interventions for improving the understanding and minimising the psychological impact of screening
• Interventions for promoting the use of advance directives for end-of-life decisions in adults (COMING SOON)
• Interventions (non-pharmacological) for preparing children and adolescents for hospital care
• 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
• Involving service users as service providers for adult statutory mental health services
• Mobile phone messaging for communicating results of medical investigations (COMING SOON)
• Mobile phone messaging for preventive health care (COMING SOON)
• Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled healthcare appointments (COMING SOON)
• Mobile phone messaging telemedicine for facilitating self management of long-term illnesses (COMING SOON)
• Negative versus positive framing of health information
• Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases
• Physical rehabilitation involving goal setting for older people living in the community
• Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery
• Shared decision making interventions for people with mental health conditions (NEW)
• Using different statistical formats for presenting health information
• Written information about medicines for consumers
• Visual feedback of the individual's medical imaging results for changing health behaviours in clinical and non-clinical populations (COMING SOON)

Registered Titles

• Effects of varying communication in the patient-practitioner relationship
• Electronic personal health records for enhancing care quality, safety and health self-management
• Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals
• Email for clinical communication between patients and healthcare professionals
• 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 for parents about post-mortem examination
• Interventions for enhancing adherence to dietary recommendations
• Interventions for promoting informed decision-making by patients and/or surrogate decision makers on resuscitation orders in adults
• Interventions for promoting shared decision-making with children facing surgical decisions
• Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
• Interventions utilising marketing strategies for promoting healthy eating behaviours in young people
• Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about recommended medications
• Notification and support for consumers after incidental exposure to disease during hospital treatment
• Self-management education for people at risk of anaphylaxis (major allergy)

You can view all Cochrane registered titles on the Cochrane Collaboration website.