Preventing and treating heart complications in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy and X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy |
Preventing bleeding in people with congenital bleeding disorders during and after surgery |
Preventing cryptococcal disease in HIV-positive people |
Preventing death from blood clots, the formation of blood clots and blood clots in the lungs in people who have had physical trauma |
Preventing dementia: do vitamin and mineral supplements have a role? |
Preventing eating disorders in children and adolescents |
Preventing misconduct and promoting integrity in research and publication |
Preventing or reducing partner violence against women during pregnancy |
Preventing pain after brain surgery |
Preventing type 2 diabetes in adults with mental health conditions in low- and middle-income countries |
Preventing venous thromboembolism in women during pregnancy, childbirth and after birth |
Prevention and treatment interventions for nausea and vomiting during initiation of chronic opioid therapy |
Prevention and treatment of fungal infections with nystatin in severely immunodepressed patients |
Prevention and treatment of postpartum hypertension |
Prevention and treatment regimens for recurrent corneal erosion (corneal epithelial surface breakdown) |
Prevention of blood clots in adults diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and treated with asparaginase-based chemotherapy |
Prevention of blood clots in non-hospitalised cancer patients receiving chemotherapy |
Prevention of blood clots in patients undergoing cardiac or thoracic surgery |
Prevention of dementia and decline in cognition by using multi-domain interventions |
Prevention of diarrhoea in children with HIV infection or who were born to an HIV-infected mother |
Prevention of fungal infections in cancer patients with amphotericin B or fluconazole |
Prevention of fungal infections in patients with cancer with amphotericin B |
Prevention of fungal infections in patients with cancer with antifungal drugs |
Prevention of infection in aortic or aortoiliac peripheral arterial reconstruction |
Prevention of infection in peripheral arterial reconstruction of the lower limb |
Prevention of infection with surgery for peripheral arterial reconstruction |
Prevention of occlusion of small veins in the liver after blood-forming stem cell transplantation |
Prevention of poor blood flow in the veins in a standing worker population |
Prevention of rebleeding from enlarged veins in the food pipe (oesophagus) resulting from advanced liver disease |
Prevention of recurrent miscarriage for women with antiphospholipid antibody or lupus anticoagulant |
Prevention of self-harm and suicide in young people up to the age of 25 in education settings |
Prevention of suicide in university and other post-secondary educational settings |
Prevention of thrombosis in children with cancer and tunnelled CVCs |
Prevention of transmission of cytomegalovirus from mother to fetus during pregnancy |
Preventive staff-support interventions for health workers |
Preventive treatments for repeated episodes of cellulitis and erysipelas |
Preventive use of implantable heart defibrillators in people with poor heart function |
Preventive use of steroids in children after open heart surgery. |
Primaquine for preventing relapses in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria |
Primaquine or tafenoquine for preventing malaria in people travelling to or living in endemic areas |
Primaquine to cure people with malaria: comparing dosing schedules |
Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction |
Primary care based clinics for asthma |
Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments |
Primary care versus specialty care management of opioid use disorder |
Primary closure (immediate stitches) versus delayed closure (delayed stitches) or no closure (no stitches) for traumatic wounds due to mammalian bite |
Primary cryotherapy for localised or locally advanced prostate cancer |
Primary immunosuppression following heart transplantation |
Primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people |
Primary prevention interventions for reducing school violence |
Primary prevention of suicide and suicidal behaviour for adolescents in school settings |
Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries |
Printed educational materials for healthcare professional practice and patient health |
PRO 140 for treatment of people with HIV infection |
Probable that silver-containing dressings and creams do not prevent wound infection or promote healing |
Probiotic agents for the treatment of diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome |
Probiotic bacteria improve cholesterol levels |
Probiotics ('healthy bacteria') for preventing acute middle ear infection in children |
Probiotics as adjunctive therapy for eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection |
Probiotics as an added treatment for gestational diabetes to improve mother and baby outcomes |
Probiotics for fibromyalgia |
Probiotics for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease |
Probiotics for maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis |
Probiotics for people with cystic fibrosis |
Probiotics for people with hepatic encephalopathy |
Probiotics for persistent diarrhoea in children |
Probiotics for preventing preterm labour |
Probiotics for preventing urinary tract infections in adults and children |
Probiotics for preventing urinary tract infections in people with bladder dysfunction after a nervous system injury |
Probiotics for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia |
Probiotics for prevention of necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight infants |
Probiotics for the management of functional abdominal pain disorders in children |
Probiotics for the prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in children |
Probiotics for the prevention or treatment of hyperbilirubinaemia in late preterm and term neonates |
Probiotics for the treatment of active Crohn's disease |
Probiotics for the treatment of active ulcerative colitis |
Probiotics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis |
Probiotics for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome in children |
Probiotics for treating eczema |
Probiotics for treatment of chronic constipation in children |
Probiotics for treatment of Clostridium difficile
-associated colitis in adults |
Probiotics for vulvovaginal candidiasis in non-pregnant women |
Probiotics in infants for prevention of allergic disease and food hypersensitivity |
Probiotics to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus |
Probiotics to prevent infantile colic |
Problem solving skills for schizophrenia |
Problem solving treatment (PST) for emotional problems in primary care |
Probucol for type 2 diabetes mellitus |
Procaine is a controversial substance that has been used for "antiageing" effects including cognitive improvement for more than 50 years |
Procalcitonin evaluation for reducing mortality in adults with sepsis |
Procalcitonin for the diagnosis of sepsis in neonates: a diagnostic test accuracy review |
Procalcitonin, C-reactive protein, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate for the diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis in children |
Procalcitonin, C-reactive protein, and presepsin for the diagnosis of sepsis in adults and children |
Procedures for retreatment of failed root canal therapy |
Processed versus fresh frozen bone for repairing the bone in revision hip surgery |
Producing Evidence: Goal 1 of Strategy to 2020 |
Prof Jimmy Volmink recognised with honorary doctorate for ‘individuals of exceptional distinction’ |
Prof Tracey Howe appears in Decade of Healthy Ageing ‘Leaders Voices’ video alongside WHO and UN leadership |
Professional interventions for general practitioners (GPs) on the management of musculoskeletal conditions |
Professional interventions to implement guidelines to prevent hazardous alcohol consumption by patients in primary care settings |
Professionally applied fluoride paint-on solutions for the control of dental caries in children and adolescents |
Professionally-applied chemically-induced whitening of teeth in adults |
Professions allied to medicine, such as nurses, midwives and dietiticians, can effectively incorporate clinical guidelines to improve patient care |
Professor Julian Higgins receives award from the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology |
Progabide add-on for refractory epilepsy |
Progestagens and anti-progestagens for pain associated with endometriosis |
Progesterone for premenstrual syndrome |
Progesterone for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications |
Progesterone for traumatic brain injury |
Progesterone receptor modulators for endometriosis |
Progestin intrauterine devices versus copper intrauterine devices for emergency contraception |
Progestin-only pills for contraception |
Progestogen for preventing miscarriage |
Progestogen for treating threatened miscarriage |
Progestogen only versus combined oral contraceptive pills for fibroid related heavy menstrual bleeding |
Progestogens for hot flushes |
Progestogens or progestogen-releasing intrauterine systems for uterine fibroids (other than preoperative medical therapy) |
Progestogens versus gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, GnRH antagonists and other progestogens for women undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) |
Progestogens with or without oestrogen for irregular menstrual bleeding |
Prognosis of adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis without treatment or without effective therapies |
Prognostic accuracy of imaging findings for predicting morbidity and mortality in patients with COVID-19 |
Prognostic factors for predicting progression of open angle glaucoma in adults |
Prognostic factors for return to work following knee arthroplasty |
Prognostic factors for return to work in breast cancer survivors |
Prognostic factors predicting an unprovoked seizure recurrence in children and adults following a first unprovoked seizure |
Prognostic models for colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in patients with inflammatory bowel disease |
Prognostic models for predicting recurrence and survival in women with endometrial cancer |
Prognostic models for predicting the severity and mortality in people with acute pancreatitis |
Prognostic models for radiation-induced complications after radiotherapy in head and neck cancer patients |
Prognostic value of the androgen receptor in addition to the established hormone receptors and HER2 status for predicting survival in women with early breast cancer |
Programmes based in primary schools designed to help prevent tooth decay by changing children's behaviour |
Programmes, policies and work practices that reduce aggression by patients towards healthcare workers |
Programs for preventing pregnancy and disease through better condom use |
Programs for preventing pregnancy and disease through using two methods of contraception |
Programs to improve birth control use by postpartum women |
Progressive resistance strength training for improving physical function in older adults |
Progressive resistive exercise interventions for adults living with HIV/AIDS |
Prolonged antibiotics for purulent bronchiectasis in children and adults |
Prolonged lung inflation for resuscitation of babies at birth |
Prolonged storage of packed red blood cells (storage of 21 days or more) in comparison with fresh cells on recipients of blood transfusion |
Prolonged versus short course of indomethacin for the treatment of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants |
Prolotherapy injections for chronic low-back pain |
Promoting cough in critically-ill adults and children to enable removal of the breathing tube (extubation) and breathing without the machine (weaning) |
Promoting evidence-based health care in Africa |
Promoting patient uptake and adherence in cardiac rehabilitation |
Promoting the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by health care professionals |
Prompts to encourage appointment attendance for people with serious mental illness |
Prone (face-down) position for mechanical ventilation of adults with acute respiratory failure |
Prone position for management of respiratory failure in non-intubated adults |
Prophylactic (preventive) chemotherapy for hydatidiform mole (molar pregnancy) to prevent cancerous growth later |
Prophylactic administration of colony-stimulating factors reduces hospital stay and risk of infections in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia |
Prophylactic anastomotic drainage for colorectal surgery |
Prophylactic animal derived surfactant extract for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
Prophylactic antibiotic therapy for chronic bronchitis |
Prophylactic antibiotic therapy for people with chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) |
Prophylactic antibiotics for infection control in patients with penetrating chest trauma |
Prophylactic antibiotics for inhibiting preterm labour in women whose membranes are still intact |
Prophylactic antibiotics for manual removal of retained placenta in vaginal birth |
Prophylactic antibiotics for people with COPD |
Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing gram-positive infections associated with long-term central venous catheters in adults and children receiving treatment for cancer |
Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing recurrent symptomatic episodes of acute diverticulitis |
Prophylactic antibiotics for transcervical intrauterine procedures |
Prophylactic antibiotics for tube thoracostomy |
Prophylactic antibiotics for uterine evacuation procedures to treat miscarriage |
Prophylactic antibiotics or G(M)-CSF for the prevention of infections in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy |
Prophylactic antibiotics to prevent infection after cervical excision |
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonates with umbilical artery catheters |
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonates with umbilical venous catheters |
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in newborn infants with intercostal catheters |
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in ventilated newborn infants |
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce the risk of urinary tract infections after urodynamic studies |
Prophylactic antiemetics for adults receiving intravenous opioids in the acute care setting |
Prophylactic antiemetics for adults receiving intravenous opioids in the acute care setting |
Prophylactic arterial embolization in patients with bleeding peptic ulcers following endoscopic control of bleeding |
Prophylactic blood thinners for the prevention of death and venous thromboembolism in COVID-19 outpatients |
Prophylactic caffeine to prevent postoperative apnoea following general anaesthesia in preterm infants |
Prophylactic cholecystectomy should be offered to patients whose gallbladders remain in-situ after endoscopic sphincterotomy and common bile duct clearance |
Prophylactic colony-stimulating factors to prevent infectious complications in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy |
Prophylactic corticosteroids for preterm birth |
Prophylactic cranial irradiation for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer |
Prophylactic cranial irradiation for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer |
Prophylactic cranial irradiation improves survival rate of patients with small-cell lung cancer in complete remission |
Prophylactic cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor drugs to prevent morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
Prophylactic cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor drugs to prevent morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
Prophylactic doxapram for the prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants undergoing endotracheal extubation |
Prophylactic drug management for febrile seizures in children |
Prophylactic ergometrine-oxytocin versus oxytocin for the third stage of labour |
Prophylactic interventions after delivery of placenta for reducing bleeding during the postnatal period |
Prophylactic intravenous indomethacin for preventing mortality and morbidity in preterm infants |
Prophylactic intravenous preloading for regional analgesia in labour |
Prophylactic lidocaine for myocardial infarction |
Prophylactic manual rotation for fetal malposition to reduce operative delivery and reduce complications for mothers and babies |
Prophylactic methylxanthine for prevention of apnoea in preterm infants |
Prophylactic methylxanthines for extubation in preterm infants |
Prophylactic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for the prevention of macular oedema after cataract surgery |
Prophylactic oral betamimetics for preventing preterm labour in singleton pregnancies |
Prophylactic oral/topical non-absorbed antifungal agents to prevent invasive fungal infection in very low birth weight infants |
Prophylactic paracetamol for the prevention of fever in children receiving vaccination as part of a standard childhood immunization schedule |
Prophylactic phototherapy for preventing jaundice in preterm very low birth weight infants |
Prophylactic postnatal thyroid hormones for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
Prophylactic protein free synthetic surfactant for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
Prophylactic surgical ligation of patent ductus arteriosus for prevention of mortality and morbidity in extremely low birth weight infants |
Prophylactic systemic antibiotics to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonates with central venous catheters |
Prophylactic systemic antifungal agents to prevent mortality and morbidity in very low birth weight infants |
Prophylactic treatment with monoclonal antibodies targeting the CGRP pathway for migraine prevention |
Prophylactic use of inotropic agents for the prevention of low cardiac output syndrome and mortality in adults undergoing cardiac surgery |
Prophylactic versus selective antibiotics for term newborn infants of mothers with risk factors for neonatal infection |
Prophylactic versus selective blood transfusion for sickle cell anaemia during pregnancy |
Prophylactic versus selective use of surfactant in preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants |
Prophylactic versus therapeutic amnioinfusion for oligohydramnios in labour |
Prophylactic vitamin K for the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding in preterm neonates |
Prophylactic vitamin K for vitamin K deficiency bleeding in neonates |
Prophylaxis for stress-related gastrointestinal bleeding |
Prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism during asparaginase therapy in patients treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
Prophylaxis of leptospirosis may be achieved by administration of doxycycline to soldiers training in endemic areas with a high risk of exposure to leptospirosis. Whether these findings apply to other scenarios or not remains to be proven |
Prophylaxis with Immunoglobulin G (IgG), anti CMV vaccine or interferon do not significantly reduce CMV disease and CMV-associated mortality in solid organ transplant recipients |
Propionyl-L-carnitine for intermittent claudication |
Propofol and ketamine in combination versus ketamine or propofol alone for procedural sedation in children outside of the operating room |
Propofol at night to improve sleep in the intensive care unit |
Propofol for sedation during colonoscopy can lead to faster recovery after the procedure and higher patient satisfaction. |
Propofol infusion for paediatric sedation |
Propofol use for sedation in newborn babies undergoing procedures |
Propofol versus thiopental sodium for the treatment of refractory status epilepticus (RSE) |
Propranolol for migraine prophylaxis |
Propylthiouracil for alcoholic liver disease |
Prostacyclin and analogues for acute ischaemic stroke |
Prostacyclin for pulmonary hypertension in adults |
Prostacyclin in pulmonary arterial hypertension |
Prostaglandin A for treating pre-eclampsia |
Prostaglandin E1 analogues for chronic hepatitis B |
Prostaglandin E1 for diabetic neuropathy |
Prostaglandin E1 for keeping the duct open in heart conditions in the newborn |
Prostaglandin E1 for preventing the progression of diabetic kidney disease |
Prostaglandin E1 helps many men suffering from erectile dysfunction to have sexual intercourse |
Prostaglandins for management of retained placenta |
Prostaglandins for prelabour rupture of membranes at or near term |
Prostaglandins for preventing postpartum haemorrhage |
Prostaglandins to treat adults who have undergone liver transplantation |
Prostaglandins versus oxytocin for prelabour rupture of membranes at or near term |
Prostaglandins versus oxytocin for prelabour rupture of membranes at term |
Prostanoids for intermittent claudication |
Prostanoids for people with severely blocked arteries of the leg |
Prostanoids in pulmonary hypertension of the newborn |
Prostatic arterial embolization for treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia |
Prostatic urethral lift for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia |
Protease activity and its association with future healing of venous leg ulcers |
Protease inhibitors in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for adult patients with chronic hepatitis C virus |
Protease modulating dressings for treating diabetic foot ulcers |
Protease-modulating matrix treatments for healing venous leg ulcers |
Protective analgesia for postoperative pain following third molar surgery |