Showing 261-280 of 296 for: Cochrane Systematic Reviews > Healthcare management and organization 
- Strategies for expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable populations
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Nov-2014
Health insurance has the potential to improve access to health care and protect people from the financial risks of diseases. However, health insurance coverage is often low, particularly for people most in need of protection, including children and other
- Support for carers of people with Alzheimer's type dementia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Nov-2008
Research has highlighted the problems for carers of people with dementia. These include the effective loss of companionship and support of a life partner, social isolation and complex financial, legal and social decision making. The burden of caring is fi
- Surgery for women with anterior compartment prolapse
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Nov-2016
To minimise the rate of recurrent prolapse after traditional native tissue repair (anterior colporrhaphy), clinicians have utilised a variety of surgical techniques.
- Surgical approach to hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Aug-2015
The four approaches to hysterectomy for benign disease are abdominal hysterectomy (AH), vaginal hysterectomy (VH), laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) and robotic-assisted hysterectomy (RH).
- Surgical hand antisepsis to reduce surgical site infection
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Jan-2016
Medical professionals routinely carry out surgical hand antisepsis before undertaking invasive procedures to destroy transient micro-organisms and inhibit the growth of resident micro-organisms. Antisepsis may reduce the risk of surgical site infections (
- Surgical treatment for the thumb‐in‐palm deformity in patients with cerebral palsy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Oct-2005
Thumb-in-palm deformity in patients with spastic cerebral palsy is a deformity that impairs the ability to use the thumb and thus severely limits hand function. From the variety of operative procedures that have been described, it may be clear that there
- Techniques and materials for closure of the abdominal wall in caesarean section
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Aug-2008
There is a variety of techniques for closing the abdominal wall during caesarean section. Some methods may be better in terms of postoperative recovery and other important outcomes.
- Techniques and materials for skin closure in caesarean section
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Nov-2012
Caesarean section is a common operation with no agreed upon standard regarding certain operative techniques or materials to use. With regard to skin closure, the skin incision can be re-approximated by a subcuticular suture immediately below the skin laye
- Techniques for caesarean section
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Jan-2008
Rates of caesarean section (CS) have been rising globally. It is important to use the most effective and safe technique.
- The effect of pharmacist‐provided non‐dispensing services on patient outcomes, health service utilisation and costs in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 28-Feb-2013
The role of pharmacists has expanded beyond dispensing and packaging over the past two decades, and now includes ensuring rational use of drugs, improving clinical outcomes and promoting health status by working with the public and other healthcare profes
- The effects of on‐screen, point of care computer reminders on processes and outcomes of care
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Jul-2009
The opportunity to improve care by delivering decision support to clinicians at the point of care represents one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated clinical information systems. Previous reviews of computer reminder and decision support
- The impact of conditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in low and middle income countries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Oct-2009
Conditional cash transfers (CCT) provide monetary transfers to households on the condition that they comply with some pre-defined requirements. CCT programmes have been justified on the grounds that demand-side subsidies are necessary to address inequitie
- The impact of user fees on access to health services in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Apr-2011
Following an international push for financing reforms, many low- and middle-income countries introduced user fees to raise additional revenue for health systems. User fees are charges levied at the point of use and are supposed to help reduce ‘frivolous’
- Therapeutic touch for healing acute wounds
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 25-Aug-2016
Therapeutic Touch (TT) is an alternative therapy that has gained popularity over the past two decades for helping wounds to heal. Practitioners enter a meditative state and pass their hands above the patient's body to find and correct any imbalances in th
- Thyroid hormone replacement for subclinical hypothyroidism
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 2-Nov-2008
Subclinical hypothyroidism is defined as an elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level with normal free thyroid hormones values. The prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism is 4% to 8% in the general population, and up to 15% to 18% in women
- Tissue adhesives for closure of surgical incisions
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 28-Nov-2014
Sutures (stitches), staples and adhesive tapes have been used for many years as methods of wound closure, but tissue adhesives have entered clinical practice more recently. Closure of wounds with sutures enables the closure to be meticulous, but the sutur
- Topical anaesthesia plus intracameral lidocaine versus topical anaesthesia alone for phacoemulsification cataract surgery in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 28-Jul-2020
Phacoemulsification cataract surgery is usually performed in adults under local anaesthesia. Topical anaesthesia, which involves instilling anaesthetic drops to the ocular surface prior to and during surgery, has found large acceptance internationally. It
- Topical antibiotic prophylaxis to reduce respiratory tract infections and mortality in adults receiving mechanical ventilation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Jan-2021
Patients treated with mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICUs) have a high risk of developing respiratory tract infections (RTIs). Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been estimated to affect 5% to 40% of patients treated with mechanica
- Topical fluoride (toothpastes, mouthrinses, gels or varnishes) for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Oct-2003
Topical fluoride therapy (TFT) in the form of varnish, gel, mouthrinse or toothpaste has been used extensively as a caries-preventive intervention for over 3 decades.
- Transabdominal pre‐peritoneal (TAPP) vs totally extraperitoneal (TEP) laparoscopic techniques for inguinal hernia repair.
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Jan-2005
The choice of approach to the laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia is controversial. There is a scarcity of data comparing the laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach with the laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (TEP) approach and que
