Systematic Reviews of Studies Relating to Hospitalisation

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence relating to hospitalisation.

Created October 2007

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Title:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at the hip and knee in chronic arthropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation that happens very soon after hip or knee replacement:may improve a person's ability to move. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation that takes place at home:may improve a person's quality of life and their ability to do normal...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Length of hospitalisation for people with severe mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The time spent in hospital for people with serious mental illness has declined in high income countries over the past 30 years due to changes in the health care policies; with more emphasis placed nowadays on community care. We reviewed the effects of p...
Title:   Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In the Caribbean, people with acute psychotic illnesses may be managed in the general medical wards of local hospitals rather than specialised psychiatric units. In this review we attempted to find any good quality trial-based evidence to support this p...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Outreach and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the prevention of Intensive Care admission and death of critically ill adult patients on general hospital wards
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know from research about the effect of outreach services for patients on general hospital wards. The review found two studies which were of good quality. One study compared 12 hospitals with outreach se...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Home versus in-patient treatment for deep vein thrombosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs when a blood clot blocks blood flow through a vein, generally in the legs. This can happen after surgery, trauma, or when a person is immobile. Clots can dislodge and block blood flow to the lungs, which can be fatal. H...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smoking contributes to many health problems including cancers, cardiovascular disease, and lung diseases. Smoking also increases the risk associated with hospitalisation for surgery. People who are in hospital because of a smoking-related illness are li...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Education interventions for adults who attend the emergency room for acute asthma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Self-management and education plans are widely recommended for treating chronic asthma; however, despite widespread endorsement of this intervention acute asthma continues to affect a large number of adults globally. We reviewed evidence from randomised...
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Strategies for the removal of short-term indwelling urethral catheters in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients in hospital with a brief severe illness or following surgery may have a tube placed into the passage from the bladder (an in-dwelling urethral catheter). Potential complications are infection, tissue damage and patient discomfort. This review i...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Routine hospital admission versus out-patient or home care in children at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Traditionally, children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have been admitted to hospital to make sure that blood sugar and symptoms of the disease are well controlled and to teach the child and his/her family how to manage the diabetes. In some cases...
Date:   Feb 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:   Double wall versus single wall incubator for reducing heat loss in very low birth weight infants in incubators
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Newborn infants maintained in the appropriate temperature range have a better chance of surviving. When newborn infants are within the appropriate temperature range, they burn less energy and have improved growth. The concept of an incubator with additi...
Date:   Dec 2006
Title:   Mother and baby units for schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   While surveys have reported that many women strongly prefer admission to MBUs, there are concerns that admitting a baby to a psychiatric unit for long periods of time may be harmful in terms of institutionalisation of the baby, and the rarer potential r...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Exercise for acutely hospitalised older medical patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For older patients who are admitted to hospital, exercise sessions may not lead to any difference in function, harms, length of stay in hospital or whether they go home or to a nursing home or other care facility. For older patients who are admitted to ho...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Family-centred care for children in hospital
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review has tried to do that by examining research about family-centred care. We assessed potentially-relevant studies against criteria that identify important parts of FCC. Despite extensive searching we found no studies we could include in this re...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with severe mental illness can experience violent and aggressive episodes which can threaten both their safety and that of their carers. We looked for trials comparing different non-pharmaceutical containment strategies for people with severe men...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Early use of inhaled corticosteroids in the emergency department treatment of acute asthma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In an asthma attack, the airways (passages to the lungs) narrow from muscle spasm and swelling (inflammation). Corticosteroid drugs can be used to reduce the swelling. Corticosteroids can be inhaled, or taken by mouth (orally) or through a drip into the...
Date:   Sep 2005
Title:   Non-nutritive sucking for promoting physiologic stability and nutrition in preterm infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   An infant needs coordinated sucking, swallowing and breathing to feed. The ability to suck and to swallow is present by 28 weeks gestation, but infants are not fully coordinated until 32 to 34 weeks. This means that preterm infants less than 32 weeks ge...
Title:   Bed rest with or without hospitalisation for hypertension during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   High blood pressure in pregnant women can contribute to babies being small, being born too soon and having considerable health problems. Women with high blood pressure are often advised to rest in bed either at home or in hospital. It is suggested that ...
Date:   May 2005
Title:   Hospital at home versus in-patient hospital care
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   'Hospital at home' is care provided at home that would otherwise require a hospital stay. This review looked at hospital at home schemes for adults, excluding maternity and mental health schemes and paediatric and long term care programmes. Most trial...
Date:   May 2005
Title:   Inpatient versus other settings for detoxification for opioid dependence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Dependence on opioid drugs, such as heroin, morphine, and codeine, is a serious problem in many societies. Opioids are very difficult to quit using. The first step to quitting is detoxification, which can cause a number of painful symptoms as the drug w...
Date:   Jan 2005
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