Systematic Reviews on Hospitalisation

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

Reviewed September 2009

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Title:   Brief interventions for heavy alcohol users admitted to general hospital wards
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Heavy or dangerous patterns of drinking alcohol can lead to accidents, injuries, physical and psychiatric illnesses, frequent sickness, absence from employment and social problems. Long term alcohol consumption has harmful effects on almost all organs o...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Systemic corticosteroids for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with COPD (sometimes called emphysema or chronic bronchitis) have episodes of deterioration, which may need a hospital stay. Such exacerbations are often caused by infections and are treated with antibiotics. Treatment with corticosteroids has be...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Day care versus in-patient surgery for age-related cataract
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The lens in eyes can become cloudy with age, leading to blurry vision or total vision loss. Cataracts can be surgically removed using a process called phacoemulsification, followed by implantation of an artificial lens to restore vision. This method of ...
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The growing demand for rehabilitation services for older people has generated increased interest in the use of alternative care environments. This review aimed to compare the effects of care home environments (e.g. nursing home, residential care home an...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Avoidance of bottles during the establishment of breast feeds in preterm infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Preterm infants start milk feeds by tube and as they mature they are able to manage sucking feeds. The number of sucking feeds each day are gradually increased as the baby matures. For women who choose to breast feed their preterm infant it is not alway...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Benzodiazepines for delirium
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A systematic review of benzodiazepine treatment of non-alcohol related delirium discovered very few trials (one randomized, controlled study of mechanically ventilated patients, and thus poorly reflective of delirious patients as a whole; and two partia...
Date:   Jun 2008
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:   May 2008
Title:   Computerized advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Physicians and other health care professionals often prescribe drugs that will only work at certain levels. These drugs are said to have a narrow therapeutic window. This means that if the level of the drug is too high or too low, they may cause serio...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Medical day hospital care for the elderly versus alternative forms of care
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Geriatric day hospitals are an important component of elderly care designed to assist with in-hospital services. They are out-patient facilities where older patients attend for a full or near full day and receive multidisciplinary rehabilitation in a he...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Admission avoidance hospital at home
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Admission avoidance hospital at home is a service that provides active treatment by health care professionals in the patient's home for a condition that otherwise would require acute hospital in-patient care, and always for a limited time period.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Types of urethral catheters for management of short-term voiding problems in hospitalised adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Urinary catheters are small tubes inserted through the urethra (outlet for urine). They are often used for a time after major surgery or to monitor urine output in hospitalised patients. About half of all hospitalised adults who have urinary catheters i...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   We examined the effectiveness of advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness using a systematic review of available randomised controlled trials. We were only able to find two relevant trials. These provided little evidence of the...
Date:   Feb 2008
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:   Joint replacements are common procedures and treatment of choice for those with intractable joint pain and disability arising from arthropathy of the hip or knee. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is considered integral to the outcome of joint replacemen...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Protein and energy supplementation in elderly people at risk from malnutrition
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Much emphasis is placed on the importance of good diet, usually in relation to concern about the health risks of obesity. However it has been generally agreed that the risk of undernutrition rather than overnutrition is the main cause for concern in eld...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Nebulized hypertonic saline solution for acute bronchiolitis in infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute viral bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection in infants, but the standard treatment remains supportive care. This review was conducted to assess the effects of nebulized hypertonic saline, which can increase clearance o...
Date:   Nov 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:   Nov 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...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Bed rest in hospital for suspected impaired fetal growth
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Too little evidence from trials to show whether hospital bed rest for pregnant women has a beneficial effect on the unborn baby's growth....
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Bed rest with or without hospitalisation for hypertension during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough evidence to say if bed rest in pregnancy helps women and their babies when women have high blood pressure....
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Antenatal education for self-diagnosis of the onset of active labour at term
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough evidence to prove the benefit of a specific set of criteria to self-diagnose active labour....
Date:   Oct 2007
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