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Systematic Reviews of Nursing
Follow the links below to find summaries of ystematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of nursing interventions and procedures.
Reviewed November 2011
19 Resources Found
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| Title: | Non-invasive interventions for improving well-being and quality of life in patients with lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Despite recent advances in lung cancer treatment, the outlook for most patients is grim. Many still face a short survival time during which they may suffer physical and psychological problems associated with the cancer and with side effects of treatment... |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many countries have introduced new models for staffing hospital units with nursing staff in response to shortages of qualified nurses and changes in patient care needs. These include changes in the mix of qualified and unqualified nurses within the hosp... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Programs offering additional support during pregnancy were not effective in reducing number of babies born too early and babies with low birthweights. Babies born to mothers in socially disadvantaged situations are more likely to be small and so have he... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Nursing record systems: effects on nursing practice and healthcare outcomes |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | When patients are in hospital or sick at home and visited by a nurse, it is important that the care they receive is recorded properly. Nurses record a wide variety of information about a patient's care and progress. For example, nurses would recor... |
| Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Title: | Specialist nursing interventions for inflammatory bowel disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The number and type of gastroenterology and inflammatory bowel disease specialist nurses is increasing, along with the variety of roles performed in patient care and management. This review included one low quality trial of a specialist nurse counsellin... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Nurse specialist care for bronchiectasis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease characterised by productive cough and recurrent chest infections. Untreated patients have a poor quality of life and may eventually develop respiratory failure. This review evaluates the process of care in this g... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Care delivery and self-management strategies for adults with epilepsy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Evidence for the effectiveness of care interventions for adults with epilepsy is still unclear. This review compared the effectiveness of a range of interventions, including specialist nurses and management strategies, in improving outcomes for adults w... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Support for mothers, fathers and families after perinatal death |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Not enough information about what types of interventions and the possible benefits of interventions when providing support for mothers, fathers and their families after a baby dies at birth. The death of a baby at, or around, the time of birth is devast... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Nursing interventions for smoking cessation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Most smokers want to quit, and may be helped by advice and support from healthcare professionals. Nurses are the largest healthcare workforce, and are involved in virtually all levels of health care. This review of clinical trials covered 42 studies, wi... |
| Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Title: | Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice-based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The extent to which different healthcare professionals work well together can affect the quality of the health care that they provide. If there are problems in how healthcare professionals communicate and interact with each other, then problems in patie... |
| Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Title: | Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients who suffer an acute illness and are admitted to hospital are often admitted into an acute care ward with many services provided. But while recovering from the illness they may not need those intense services and will need to prepare to go home.... |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Specialist breast care nurses for supportive care of women with breast cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Breast cancer is a complex disease which has seen survival for women improve over the last 20 years. Many of these improvements are linked to treatment advances, improved screening and a multiprofessional approach to its management. Breast Care Nurses (... |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Validation therapy for dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Validation therapy is based on the general principle of validation, the acceptance of the reality and personal truth of another's experience. The specific interventions and techniques used within the validation approach bring together behavioural and ps... |
| Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Title: | Specialist home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Specialist paediatric home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses can potentially reduce hospital admission and length of stay, enhance health care in the community and reduce stress for families at the time of their child'... |
| Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Title: | Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many countries have sought to shift the provision of primary care from doctors to nurses in order to reduce the demand for doctors and improve healthcare efficiency. The expectation is that nurses working as substitutes can provide as high quality care ... |
| Date: | Jul 2004 |
| Title: | Family-centred care for children in hospital |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | When a child comes into hospital, the whole family is affected. In giving care, nurses, doctors and those caring for the child must consider the impact of the child's admission on all the family members. 'Family-centred care' (FCC) has developed as one ... |
| Date: | Feb 2004 |
| Title: | Organisational infrastructures to promote evidence based nursing practice |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | We did not find any evaluated infrastructure developments that were of sufficient quality to be included in the systematic review. There are no clear implications for organisational practice as there is no good evidence about the impact of organisationa... |
| Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Title: | Specialist nurses in diabetes mellitus |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Specialist diabetes nurses provide education and support services to people with diabetes in many health care systems. A key goal is helping enable people to self-manage their diabetes. However, this review of trials found no strong evidence of benefit ... |
| Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Title: | Guidelines in professions allied to medicine |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The issuing of clinical guidelines to nurses, midwives, dieticians and other health-care professionals allied to medicine may reduce variations in practice and improve patient care. This review found that, despite limited research, there is some evidenc... |
| Date: | Nov 1998 |
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