Systematic Reviews of Nursing

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Title:   Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Babies born to mothers in socially disadvantaged situations are more likely to be small and so have health problems. Programs providing emotional support, practical assistance, and advice have been offered in addition to usual care. Women who received a...
Date:   Mar 2009

Title:   Nursing record systems: effects on nursing practice and healthcare outcomes
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 record a ...
Date:   Nov 2008

Title:   Specialist nursing interventions for inflammatory bowel disease
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
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
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....
Date:   Nov 2007

Title:   Support for mothers, fathers and families after perinatal death
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....
Date:   Nov 2007

Title:   Nursing interventions for smoking cessation
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
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
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
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
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
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:   Non-invasive interventions for improving well-being and quality of life in patients with lung cancer
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:   Oct 2004

Title:   Specialist epilepsy nurses for treating epilepsy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Epilepsy is a disorder where recurrent seizures are caused by abnormal electrical discharges from the brain. Problems in receiving epilepsy care include a lack of follow up, incorrect use and combination of drugs and poor communication between the perso...
Date:   Oct 2004

Title:   Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care
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
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
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
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
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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