Cochrane Reviews - by topic 'Effective Practice and Organisation of Care'

Consultation liaison in primary practice for mental health problems (protocol stage)

Continuing education meetings and workshops

Continuous quality improvement: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes (protocol stage)

Dental auxiliaries for dental care (title stage)

Dietary advice given by a dietitian versus other health professional or self-help resources to reduce blood cholesterol

Discharge planning from hospital to home

E-learning for undergraduate and postgraduate health professionals (title stage)

Early discharge hospital at home

Educational games for health professionals

Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Effectiveness of disease management programs for adults with asthma (title stage)

Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units

Effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions to improve cancer pain management (protocol stage)

Effectiveness of shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in chronic disease management

Effectiveness of staffing models in residential/subacute/extended aged care settings. (protocol stage)

Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health worker supply (protocol stage)

Effects of interventions aimed at changing the length of primary care physicians' consultation

Electronic retrieval of health information by health care providers to improve practice and patient care (protocol stage)

Expanding the roles of outpatient pharmacists: effects on health services utilisation, costs, and patient outcomes

Facility-based versus non-facility-based deliveries in low and middle-income countries (title stage)

Guideline Dissemination and Implementation Strategies for Nursing and Professions Allied to Medicine

HAH3 (title stage)

Home visits for community based elderly people (title stage)

Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes (protocol stage)

Improving health professionals' management and the organisation of care for overweight and obese people

Improving surgical practice - a systematic review of effective education strategies to improve surgical technical skills in operative procedures (protocol stage)

In-service training in the care of the seriously ill newborn or child for health professionals in developing countries (protocol stage)

Institutional versus at-home long term care for functionally dependent older people

Integrated use of interventions to improve COPD care in the care continuum (title stage)

Interprofessional collaboration: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Intervention aimed at improving professional adherence to guidelines for prevention of device-related infections (protocol stage)

Interventions for improving coverage for child immunisation in developing countries (title stage)

Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings (protocol stage)

Interventions for improving the adoption of shared decision making by healthcare professionals (protocol stage)

Interventions for improving the appropriate use of imaging in people with musculoskeletal conditions (protocol stage)

Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in under-served communities (protocol stage)

Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals (protocol stage)

Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital (protocol stage)

Interventions for reducing medication errors in hospitalized adults (title stage)

Interventions for reducing preventable drug-related hospital admissions or preventable drug-related morbidity in primary care (protocol stage)

Interventions for reducing wrong-site surgery and invasive procedures (title stage)

Interventions to control emigration of health professionals from low and middle income countries (title stage)

Interventions to implement prevention in primary care

Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients

Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care

Interventions to improve continuity of care in the follow-up of patients with cancer (title stage)

Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care

Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care

Interventions to improve question formulation in professional practice and self-directed learning (protocol stage)

Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people and reduce the risk of medication-related problems (title stage)

Interventions to improve the management of asthma in primary care settings (protocol stage)

Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings

Interventions to improve the use of diagnostic tests (protocol stage)

Interventions to increase clinical incident reporting in health care (protocol stage)

Interventions to increase the use of screening and brief intervention programmes for hazardous alcohol consumption by patients in primary care settings (protocol stage)

Interventions to reduce waiting lists for elective procedures (protocol stage)

Knowledge translation strategies for facilitating evidence-informed public health decision making among mangers and policy-makers (title stage)

Lay health workers in primary and community health care

Local consensus processes: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (protocol stage)

Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Manual paper reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (protocol stage)

Mass media interventions for influencing the use of health services

Medical day hospital care for the elderly versus alternative forms of care

Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section (protocol stage)

Nursing record systems: effects on nursing practice and health care outcomes

On-screen computer reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (protocol stage)

On-site mental health workers in primary care: effects on professional practice

Organisational and professional interventions to promote the uptake of evidence in emergency care: Effects on professional practice and health outcomes (protocol stage)

Organisational infrastructures to promote evidence based nursing practice

Organising health care services for persons with an intellectual disability

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 reminder and recall systems to improve immunization rates

Patients record systems: effects on dental practice and patient oral health outcomes (title stage)

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co-payment on rational drug use

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of financial incentives for prescribers

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of restrictions on reimbursement (title stage)

Pharmaceutical policies: effects on rational drug use, an overview of 13 reviews (protocol stage)

Pre-hospital emergency pathways for people with suspected stroke (protocol stage)

Preventive staff-support interventions for health workers (protocol stage)

Primary and community health care professionals in hospital emergency departments: effects on process and outcome of care and resources (protocol stage)

Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Professional interventions for general practitioners on the management of musculoskeletal conditions (protocol stage)

Psychologically mediated effects of the physical healthcare environment on work-related outcomes of healthcare personnel (protocol stage)

Public-private partnerships for healthcare delivery (title stage)

Sensory environment on health-related outcomes of hospital patients (protocol stage)

Smart home technologies for health and social care support

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

Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care

Supervision outreach visits to improve the quality of primary health care in low- and middle-income countries (protocol stage)

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

The effect of social franchising on access to and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries (protocol stage)

The effectiveness of the public release of performance data in changing consumer, healthcare professional or organisational behaviour. (protocol stage)

The impact of health financing strategies on access to health services in low and middle income countries (protocol stage)

The use of the exit interview to reduce turnover amongst health care professionals (protocol stage)

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