Systematic Reviews on Hospitals

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

Created November 2009

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Title:   Patient isolation measures for infants with candida colonization or infection for preventing or reducing transmission of candida in neonatal units
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Fungal infection with Candida has become increasingly common in the neonatal intensive care unit. Candida infection causes many deaths and significantly increases health care costs. Candida spreads among babies by contact, generally by health care staff...
Date:   Jul 2011
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:   May 2011
Title:   A review of strategies intended to limit duration of antibiotic therapy for hospital-acquired pneumonia in intensive care unit patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is the major cause of hospital-acquired infection in the intensive care unit (ICU). There are a number of factors which predispose the critically ill to developing pneumonia, among which the most important may be trache...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Day hospital versus admission for acute psychiatric disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Day hospitals are a less restrictive alternative to inpatient admission for people who are acutely and severely mentally ill. This review compares acute day hospital care to inpatient care. We found that at least one in five patients currently admitted ...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Systematic Reviews on Palliative Care
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of palliative care.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Sensory environment on health-related outcomes of hospital patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The hospital environment (such as sounds, pictures, aromas, design, air quality, furnishings, architecture, and layout), may have an impact on the health of patients within it. This review aims to summarise the best available evidence on hospital enviro...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Methods to improve healthcare worker hand hygiene to decrease infection in hospitals
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients in hospital, nursing homes and long-term care facilities are at high risk of developing infections that they did not have before admission. Most healthcare-associated infections are spread by direct contact, especially via the hands of healthca...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes
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:   Clinical pathways in hospitals.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Decision-making in hospitals has evolved from being opinion-based to being based on sound scientific evidence. This decision-making is recognised as evidence-based practice. Perpetual publication of new evidence combined with the demands of every-day pr...
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Interventions for preventing falls in older people in nursing care facilities and hospitals
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Falls by older people in nursing care facilities and hospitals are common events that may cause loss of independence, injuries, and sometimes death as a result of injury. Effective interventions are important as they will have significant health benefit...
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Twenty-four hour care for schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Schizophrenia is a long-term, chronic, illness with a worldwide lifetime prevalence of about one per cent. It has a high disability rate and the cost to individuals, their carers and health services is substantial. Although the majority of people with ...
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   More research needed to show whether ATLS training in hospitals can cut death rates and decrease disability in injured people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Training in 'advanced trauma life support' (ATLS) is increasingly used in both rich and poor countries. ATLS is intended to improve the way in which care is given to injured people, thereby reducing death and disability. Some research has been done that...
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Positioning for acute respiratory distress in hospitalised infants and children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Infants and children with respiratory distress may be more comfortable and breathe more easily when placed in positions other than lying on their back such as being supported over someone's shoulder, sitting upright or on their front with their legs b...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Trial of instrumental birth in theatre versus immediate caesarean section for anticipated difficult assisted births
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Most women give birth spontaneously, but some need assistance during the second stage of labour with obstetric forceps or the vacuum. The rates of instrumental vaginal births range from 5% to 20% of all births in high-income countries, with little infor...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Servo-control for maintaining abdominal skin temperature at 36C in low birth weight infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low birth weight babies have a higher chance or survival if they are kept warm. The right conditions can be made by placing the baby in an incubator. The air can be heated to a desired temperature, or radiant heat lamps inside the incubator can adjust t...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Quantitative versus qualitative cultures of respiratory secretions for clinical outcomes in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a condition which occurs in patients mechanically-ventilated for more than 48 hours and can significantly increase the mortality of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The best method for diagnosing VAP and ident...
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Chest physiotherapy for reducing respiratory morbidity in infants requiring ventilatory support
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is not enough evidence to determine whether active chest physiotherapy is of benefit to neonates on mechanical ventilation. Babies who require mechanical ventilation are at risk of lung collapse from increased secretions. Chest physiotherapy (patt...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Interventions to reduce neuromuscular complications acquired during the acute phase of critical illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neuromuscular problems are frequent complications in patients with severe disease that require admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Weakness of limbs and respiratory muscles is most frequently due to critical illness polyneuro-and/or myopathy (CI...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Psychosis is disturbance of a person's thinking that causes them to have false perceptions of the senses (hallucinations) and see the world in a different way from the majority (delusions). Psychosis can cause the sufferer to become very distressed. T...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   'As required' medication regimes for seriously mentally ill people in hospital
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Schizophrenia is a mental health problem whose symptoms can cause agitation, aggression and distress to those who have it. The drugs used to treat it are called antipsychotics and usually take several weeks to work. In the interim for people in hospit...
Date:   Mar 2007

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