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Review question What are the effects of occupational therapy for adults with stroke on activities of daily living? Background Different parts of the brain carry out different functions: seeing, sensation, balance, movement, understanding language, behaviour, problem solving, and emotion. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is ...

Protocol: To assess the beneficial and harmful effects of antibiotics for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. As a secondary objective, we plan to assess the effects of individual types of antibiotics for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.

Protocol: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of beta-blockers (BBs), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), angiotensin receptor antagonists (ARBs), mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs), and angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors (ARNIs) for the treatment of patients with heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction ...

Review question We aimed to establish if Early Supported Discharge (ESD) services can result in a better patient recovery and if they are as acceptable and affordable as usual services. Background Services that try to offer stroke patients an earlier discharge from hospital with rehabilitation provided in the community have been termed Early Supported ...

Background Acute postoperative pain is one of the most disturbing complaints after open heart surgery. It is related to impaired wound healing, chronic pain, or depression. Psychological treatment is designed to improve participant’ knowledge and to alter surgery-related mental distress, negative beliefs and noncompliance. It aims to reduce pain and ...

Protocol: To assess the effects of sclerotherapy, laser therapy, intensive pulsed light (IPL), thermocoagulation, and microphlebectomy treatment for telangiectasias and reticular veins.

Review question We compared home-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes with supervised centre-based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with myocardial infarction (blood flow to the heart has stopped), angina (chest pain), heart failure or who had undergone revascularisation. Background Cardiac rehabilitation aims to restore people with heart disease ...

Review question What are the effects of patient education delivered as part of cardiac rehabilitation, compared with usual care on mortality, morbidity, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and healthcare costs in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD)? Background Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single most common cause of death globally. ...

Review question Is repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (rPMS) effective for improving everyday activities in people after stroke? Background Stroke, the most common cause of disability, occurs when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain. Two types of stroke are known: ischaemic, due to lack of blood flow, and haemorrhagic, due to bleeding. ...

Review question How effective are diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions in reducing the weight of overweight or obese children aged 6 to 11 years? Background Across the world more children are becoming overweight and obese. These children are more likely to suffer from health problems, both while as children and in later life. More ...