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| Status | Stage |
|---|---|
- Adult patient access to electronic health records
- Assessing the effects of solid versus liquid dosage forms of oral medications on adherence and acceptability in children
- Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
- Automated telephone communication systems for preventive healthcare and management of long-term conditions
- Clients’ perceptions and experiences of targeted digital communication accessible via mobile devices for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Communication to promote and support physical distancing for COVID-19 prevention and control
- Community-based self-management programs for improving participation in life activities in older adults with chronic conditions
- Consumer-providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services
- Consumers’ and health providers’ views and perceptions of partnering to improve health services design, delivery and evaluation: a co-produced qualitative evidence synthesis
- Contracts between patients and healthcare practitioners for improving patients' adherence to treatment, prevention and health promotion activities
- Cultural competence education for health professionals
- Decision aids for people considering taking part in clinical trials
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions
- Decision coaching for people making healthcare decisions
- Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening
- Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours
- Effects of consumers and health providers working in partnership on health services planning, delivery and evaluation
- Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals
- Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals
- Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients
- Email for the coordination of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders
- Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion
- Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination
- Factors that influence women’s engagement with breastfeeding support: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Family-centred care for hospitalised children aged 0-12 years
- Family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare services
- Framing of health information messages
- Gender differences in health literacy of migrants: a synthesis of qualitative evidence
- Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation
- Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
- Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease
- Interventions aimed at communities to inform and/or educate about early childhood vaccination
- Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs
- Interventions for enhancing consumers' online health literacy
- Interventions for enhancing medication adherence
- Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about a family member's cancer
- Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about their cancer
- Interventions for improving health literacy in migrants
- Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Interventions for improving older patients' involvement in primary care episodes
- Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors
- Interventions for interpersonal communication about end of life care between health practitioners and affected people
- Interventions for involving older patients with multi-morbidity in decision-making during primary care consultations
- Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
- Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport
- Interventions to enable communication for adult patients requiring an artificial airway with or without mechanical ventilator support
- Interventions to enhance adherence to dietary advice for preventing and managing chronic diseases in adults
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions to increase patient and family involvement in escalation of care for acute life-threatening illness in community health and hospital settings
- Interventions to promote informed consent for patients undergoing surgical and other invasive healthcare procedures
- Interventions to support the decision-making process for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care
- Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma
- Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material
- Mobile phone messaging for communicating results of medical investigations
- Mobile phone messaging for facilitating self-management of long-term illnesses
- Mobile phone messaging for preventive health care
- Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments
- Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over-the-counter medications
- Notification and support for people exposed to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (or other prion diseases) through medical treatment (iatrogenically)
- Parents' and informal caregivers' views and experiences of communication about routine childhood vaccination: a synthesis of qualitative evidence
- Peer support interventions for parents and carers of children with complex needs
- Peer support telephone calls for improving health
- Personalised care planning for adults with chronic or long-term health conditions
- Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests
- Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions
- Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change
- Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery
- Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
- Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer
- Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications
- Self-formulated conditional plans for changing health behaviour among healthcare consumers and health professionals
- Self-management education programmes by lay leaders for people with chronic conditions
- Shared decision-making interventions for people with mental health conditions
- Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving maternal, neonatal, and child health
- Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving sexual and reproductive health
- Telephone follow-up, initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home
- Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for providing education and psychosocial support for informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses
- Time-limited home-care reablement services for maintaining and improving the functional independence of older adults
- Training and supportive programs for palliative care volunteers in community settings
- Unbranded advertising of prescription medicines to the public by pharmaceutical companies
- Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reductions
- Visual feedback of individuals' medical imaging results for changing health behaviour
- Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home
- Written information about individual medicines for consumers
- Information to encourage pregnant women to attempt vaginal birth has not been shown to change caesarean birth rates
- What are the benefits and risks of using virtual reality in a healthcare setting to distract children from pain?
- Interventions directed to the consumer (Group 1) (76)
- Counseling (3)
- Medication or genetic or diet counseling (2)
- Cognitive behavioural counseling for coping (1)
- Cross-cultural communication (0)
- Health promotion (6)
- Participation in screening programs (0)
- Smoking cessation (0)
- Vaccination programs (1)
- Heart programs (0)
- Healthy behaviour change (5)
- Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
- Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion
- Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport
- Interventions to enhance adherence to dietary advice for preventing and managing chronic diseases in adults
- Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change
- Information provision (23)
- About trial participation (2)
- About choices (8)
- Decision aids for people considering taking part in clinical trials
- Decision coaching for people making healthcare decisions
- Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Information to encourage pregnant women to attempt vaginal birth has not been shown to change caesarean birth rates
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reductions
- Interventions to support the decision-making process for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care
- Patient-specific details (5)
- Adult patient access to electronic health records
- Visual feedback of individuals' medical imaging results for changing health behaviour
- Mobile phone messaging for communicating results of medical investigations
- Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests
- Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients
- About available health services (6)
- Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Interventions aimed at communities to inform and/or educate about early childhood vaccination
- Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities
- Provision of a surgeon's performance data for people considering elective surgery
- Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for providing education and psychosocial support for informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses
- Genetic risk assessment (2)
- Instruction (7)
- About treatment (2)
- About medication (4)
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over-the-counter medications
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews
- Written information about individual medicines for consumers
- On discharge (1)
- Prescriptions for screening or exercise (0)
- Marketing/advertising (2)
- To improve awareness (2)
- To participate in research (0)
- Consumer education (8)
- About disease/condition (3)
- About treatment/procedure (3)
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Interventions to promote informed consent for patients undergoing surgical and other invasive healthcare procedures
- About risk reduction (2)
- Sex education (0)
- Reminder systems directed to the consumer (6)
- To attend screening (0)
- To have vaccination (0)
- To keep appointments (2)
- To take medication (4)
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions for enhancing medication adherence
- Skills training (5)
- Information use (1)
- Relaxation techniques (1)
- Self-examination methods (0)
- Communication skills (1)
- Self-care skills (2)
- Social support (6)
- Emotional/psychosocial support (6)
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
- Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
- Training and supportive programs for palliative care volunteers in community settings
- Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for providing education and psychosocial support for informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses
- Patient advocacy (0)
- Emotional/psychosocial support (6)
- Other (10)
- Assessing the effects of solid versus liquid dosage forms of oral medications on adherence and acceptability in children
- Framing of health information messages
- Gender differences in health literacy of migrants: a synthesis of qualitative evidence
- Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation
- Interventions for involving older patients with multi-morbidity in decision-making during primary care consultations
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
- Mobile phone messaging for preventive health care
- Notification and support for people exposed to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (or other prion diseases) through medical treatment (iatrogenically)
- Interventions to enable communication for adult patients requiring an artificial airway with or without mechanical ventilator support
- Interventions for improving health literacy in migrants
- Counseling (3)
- Interventions from the consumer (Group 2) (4)
- Consumer participation in reviews, committees, policy formulation (1)
- Feedback (1)
- Consumer reporting of self-monitoring (1)
- Reporting of consumer preferences (0)
- Satisfaction with usual care (0)
- Patient diaries (0)
- History taking or patient profiling (0)
- Medical history (0)
- Socio-economic factors (0)
- Measurement of patient expectations (0)
- Information-seeking initiated by the consumer, or information given by the consumer to the provider (2)
- During consultations (2)
- Surveys of consumers (0)
- Development or assessment of questionnaires (0)
- Provider education (0)
- Other (0)
- Participation in trials (0)
- Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers (Group 3) (24)
- Discussion (individual, group) (4)
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about a family member's cancer
- Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about their cancer
- Interview (0)
- Motivational interview/therapy (0)
- Consultation process (0)
- Negotiation or decision making (10)
- Care plans (1)
- Goal setting (0)
- Compliance contracts (2)
- Informed consent (1)
- Shared decision making (6)
- Decision coaching for people making healthcare decisions
- Personalised care planning for adults with chronic or long-term health conditions
- Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions
- Shared decision-making interventions for people with mental health conditions
- Patient-held medical record (4)
- Health card or booklet (0)
- Information sheet specific to particular patient (1)
- Recording of consultation (1)
- Patient summaries (1)
- Medication record (1)
- Other (6)
- Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation
- Interventions for interpersonal communication about end of life care between health practitioners and affected people
- Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors
- Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals
- Clients’ perceptions and experiences of targeted digital communication accessible via mobile devices for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Consumers’ and health providers’ views and perceptions of partnering to improve health services design, delivery and evaluation: a co-produced qualitative evidence synthesis
- Discussion (individual, group) (4)
- Interventions for communication between consumers (Group 4) (7)
- Focus groups (0)
- Peer support (3)
- Self-help groups (0)
- Learning together (0)
- Sharing experiences (3)
- Group education (0)
- Group visits (0)
- Buddy systems (0)
- Individual self-help (3)
- Individual self-help (1)
- Lay help (1)
- Self-management learning by oneself (1)
- Skills training (0)
- Support (1)
- Family teamwork (0)
- Presence of family member, carer or other person during education session, or consultation, or treatment, in support of patient (1)
- Other (0)
- Interventions for communication to the healthcare provider from another source (Group 5) (8)
- Education programs (4)
- Skills training in communication or patient-centred care skills (4)
- Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations
- Cultural competence education for health professionals
- Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications
- Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations
- Skills training in communication or patient-centred care skills (4)
- Reminder systems for the clinician (1)
- Other (3)
- Education programs (4)
- Service delivery interventions (Group 6) (21)
- Structure and delivery of care (17)
- Family access to healthcare provider or to hospitalised patient (2)
- Healthcare provision (3)
- Specialist nurses or pharmacists providing the intervention (1)
- Health plan choices (0)
- Convenience of location of care (0)
- Appointment choices (1)
- Consumer as healthcare provider (1)
- Treatment or care changes/choices (1)
- Administration or packaging of medication (1)
- Extent of physical examination (0)
- Coordination of care (1)
- Discharge planning coordination (1)
- Case management (0)
- Team care (0)
- Technology-based interventions (7)
- Remote consultation by telephone or internet (5)
- Automated telephone communication systems for preventive healthcare and management of long-term conditions
- Mobile phone messaging for facilitating self-management of long-term illnesses
- Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients
- Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals
- Clients’ perceptions and experiences of targeted digital communication accessible via mobile devices for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Interactive Health Communication Applications (2)
- Remote consultation by telephone or internet (5)
- Other (3)
- Interventions to enable communication for adult patients requiring an artificial airway with or without mechanical ventilator support
- Telephone follow-up, initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home
- Effects of consumers and health providers working in partnership on health services planning, delivery and evaluation
- Supportive environment (4)
- Change in context of care (2)
- Hospital versus home care (0)
- Home visits (0)
- Family care versus professional care (2)
- Environmental effects (0)
- Colours (0)
- Background music (0)
- Imagery (0)
- Visual or psychological imagery as relaxation technique (0)
- Guided imagery (0)
- Music (0)
- Virtual reality (1)
- Placebo effect (1)
- Physical or psychological (1)
- Other (0)
- Touch (0)
- Change in context of care (2)
- Structure and delivery of care (17)