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This page last updated: 21/8/2018

Our Reviews

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Interventions directed to the consumer (Group 1) (71)
Consumer education (6)
About disease/condition (1)
Consumer guidelines for chronic disease management (protocol stage)
About risk reduction (2)
Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination
Interventions aimed at communities to inform and/or educate about early childhood vaccination
About treatment/procedure (3)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions to promote informed consent for patients undergoing surgical and other invasive healthcare procedures
Sex education (0)
Counseling (3)
Cognitive behavioural counseling for coping (1)
Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer (protocol stage)
Medication or genetic or diet counseling (2)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions to enhance adherence to dietary advice for preventing and managing chronic diseases in adults
Cross-cultural communication (0)
Health promotion (7)
Healthy behaviour change (6)
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
Presentation of aversive visual images in health communication for changing health behaviour (protocol stage)
Heart programs (0)
Participation in screening programs (0)
Smoking cessation (0)
Vaccination programs (1)
Parents' and informal caregivers' views and experiences of communication about routine childhood vaccination: a synthesis of qualitative evidence
Information provision (22)
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 (protocol stage)
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 educating and psychosocially supporting informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses (protocol stage)
About choices (7)
Decision aids for people considering taking part in clinical trials
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 (protocol stage)
Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
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
About trial participation (2)
Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
Decision aids for people considering taking part in clinical trials
Genetic risk assessment (2)
Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening
Effects of communicating DNA-based disease risk estimates on risk-reducing behaviours
Patient-specific details (5)
Adult patient access to electronic health records (protocol stage)
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
Instruction (7)
About medication (4)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
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
About treatment (2)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions to increase patient and family involvement in escalation of care for acute life-threatening illness in community health and hospital settings (protocol stage)
On discharge (1)
Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home
Prescriptions for screening or exercise (0)
Marketing/advertising (3)
To improve awareness (3)
Incentive-based and non-incentive-based interventions for increasing blood donation (protocol stage)
Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma
Unbranded advertising of prescription medicines to the public by pharmaceutical companies (protocol stage)
To participate in research (0)
Other (6)
Assessing the effects of solid versus liquid dosage forms of oral medications on adherence and acceptability in children (protocol stage)
Framing of health information messages
Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation
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)
Reminder systems directed to the consumer (6)
To keep appointments (2)
Email for the coordination of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders
Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments
To take medication (4)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
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)
Communication skills (1)
Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs
Information use (1)
Interventions for enhancing consumers' online health literacy
Relaxation techniques (1)
Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
Self-care skills (2)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Time-limited home-care reablement services for maintaining and improving the functional independence of older adults
Self-examination methods (0)
Social support (6)
Emotional/psychosocial support (6)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer (protocol stage)
Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for educating and psychosocially supporting informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses (protocol stage)
Training and supportive programs for palliative care volunteers in community settings
Patient advocacy (0)
Interventions for communication between consumers (Group 4) (7)
Individual self-help (3)
Individual self-help (1)
Self-formulated conditional plans for changing health behaviour among healthcare consumers and health professionals (protocol stage)
Lay help (1)
Self-management education programmes by lay leaders for people with chronic conditions
Self-management learning by oneself (1)
Community-based self-management programs for improving participation in life activities in older adults with chronic conditions (protocol stage)
Other (0)
Peer support (3)
Sharing experiences (3)
Consumer-providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services
Peer support interventions for parents and carers of children with complex needs (protocol stage)
Peer support telephone calls for improving health
Skills training (0)
Support (1)
Presence of family member, carer or other person during education session, or consultation, or treatment, in support of patient (1)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers (Group 3) (20)
Discussion (individual, group) (4)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
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)
Negotiation or decision making (9)
Care plans (1)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Compliance contracts (2)
Contracts between patients and healthcare practitioners for improving patients' adherence to treatment, prevention and health promotion activities
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Goal setting (0)
Informed consent (1)
Interventions to promote informed consent for patients undergoing surgical and other invasive healthcare procedures
Shared decision making (5)
Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening 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 (protocol stage)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Shared decision making interventions for people with mental health conditions
Other (3)
Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation
Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors
Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals
Patient-held medical record (4)
Information sheet specific to particular patient (1)
Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients
Medication record (1)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Patient summaries (1)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Recording of consultation (1)
Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer
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)
Cultural competence education for health professionals
Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations (protocol stage)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations
Other (3)
Interventions to enhance adherence to dietary advice for preventing and managing chronic diseases in adults
Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reductions
Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals
Reminder systems for the clinician (1)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions from the consumer (Group 2) (4)
Consumer participation in reviews, committees, policy formulation (1)
Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material
Feedback (1)
Consumer reporting of self-monitoring (1)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Patient diaries (0)
Reporting of consumer preferences (0)
Satisfaction with usual care (0)
History taking or patient profiling (0)
Information-seeking initiated by the consumer, or information given by the consumer to the provider (2)
During consultations (2)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Interventions for improving older patients' involvement in primary care episodes
Surveys of consumers (0)
Other (0)
Provider education (0)
Service delivery interventions (Group 6) (19)
Structure and delivery of care (15)
Coordination of care (1)
Discharge planning coordination (1)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Team care (0)
Family access to healthcare provider or to hospitalised patient (2)
Rooming-in (1)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Visiting hours (1)
Information or education interventions for adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their carers (protocol stage)
Healthcare provision (4)
Appointment choices (2)
Email for the coordination of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders
Group medical appointments for people with physical illness (protocol stage)
Consumer as healthcare provider (1)
Consumer-providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services
Convenience of location of care (0)
Health plan choices (0)
Specialist nurses or pharmacists providing the intervention (1)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Other (1)
Telephone follow-up, initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home
Technology-based interventions (6)
Interactive Health Communication Applications (2)
Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease
Remote consultation by telephone or internet (4)
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
Treatment or care changes/choices (1)
Administration or packaging of medication (1)
Interventions for improving medication-taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications (protocol stage)
Extent of physical examination (0)
Supportive environment (4)
Change in context of care (2)
Family care versus professional care (2)
Family-centred care for hospitalised children aged 0-12 years
Family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare services (protocol stage)
Home visits (0)
Hospital versus home care (0)
Environmental effects (0)
Imagery (0)
Music (0)
Other (0)
Placebo effect (1)
Physical or psychological (1)
Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions
Virtual reality (1)
Virtual reality simulation for reducing pain in children (protocol stage)

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