Cochrane

Protocol: To assess the effects of unbranded advertising of prescription medicines, conducted by or on behalf of pharmaceutical companies, on consumers’ attitudes, knowledge, behaviour, health services use, health outcomes and costs.

Protocol: To assess the effects of providing access to electronic health records (EHR) alone or with additional functionalities to adult patients on a range of patient, patient-provider and health resource consumption outcomes. The secondary objective is to compare the effects of providing EHR access alone, compared with EHR access with additional ...

Review question We reviewed the effects of decision aids on people facing health treatment or screening decisions. In this update, we added 18 new studies for a total of 105. Background Making a decision about the best treatment or screening option can be hard. People can use decision aids when there is more than one option and neither is clearly ...

The aim of this Cochrane review was to explore how parents experience communication about vaccination for children under six years of age. We searched for and analysed qualitative studies that could answer this question. Qualitative research explores how people perceive and experience the world around them. This review of qualitative research supplements ...

Protocol: To evaluate the effectiveness of telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, when compared to usual care or non-telephone-based support interventions for educating and psychosocially supporting informal carers of people with acute and chronic diagnosed illnesses, on these carers' quality of life, psychosocial and ...

Background Automated telephone communication systems (ATCS) send voice messages and collect health information from people using their telephone's touch-tone keypad or voice recognition software. This could replace or supplement telephone contact between health professionals and patients. There are several types of ATCS: one-way voice messages to ...

Protocol: To assess the effects of information or education interventions for improving outcomes in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers.

Protocol: To assess the effects of family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being, delivered by primary healthcare services in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA, on a range of physical, psychosocial and behavioural outcomes of Indigenous children, parents and families.

Protocol: To assess the effects of interventions for medical students that aim to improve interpersonal communication in medical consultations.

Protocol: To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve medication-taking ability and/or adherence in older community-dwelling people (or their carers). We will focus on interventions that target medication-taking behaviour by consumers who are being treated with multiple long-term, prescribed medications, and will include ...