Patient engagement—what works?

A Coulter - The Journal of ambulatory care management, 2012 - journals.lww.com
The recent focus on patient engagement acknowledges that patients have an important role
to play in their own health care. This includes reading, understanding and acting on health …

Face‐to‐face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination

J Kaufman, R Ryan, L Walsh, D Horey… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Early childhood vaccination is an essential global public health practice that
saves two to three million lives each year, but many children do not receive all the …

[HTML][HTML] Digital education in health professions: the need for overarching evidence synthesis

J Car, J Carlstedt-Duke, L Tudor Car, P Posadzki… - Journal of medical …, 2019 - jmir.org
Synthesizing evidence from randomized controlled trials of digital health education poses
some challenges. These include a lack of clear categorization of digital health education in …

Interventions for improving medication‐taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications

AJ Cross, RA Elliott, K Petrie… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Older people taking multiple medications represent a large and growing
proportion of the population. Managing multiple medications can be challenging, and this is …

Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews

RE Ryan, N Santesso, D Lowe, S Hill… - Cochrane Database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Many systematic reviews exist on interventions to improve safe and effective
medicines use by consumers, but research is distributed across diseases, populations and …

Risk‐reducing bilateral salpingo‐oophorectomy in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

GU Eleje, AC Eke, IU Ezebialu… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The presence of deleterious mutations in breast cancer 1 gene (BRCA1) or
breast cancer 2 gene (BRCA2) significantly increases the risk of developing some cancers …

Time‐limited home‐care reablement services for maintaining and improving the functional independence of older adults

A Cochrane, M Furlong, S McGilloway… - Cochrane Database …, 2016 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Reablement, also known as restorative care, is one possible approach to home‐
care services for older adults at risk of functional decline. Unlike traditional home‐care …

Audio‐visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials

A Synnot, R Ryan, M Prictor… - Cochrane Database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Informed consent is a critical component of clinical research. Different methods
of presenting information to potential participants of clinical trials may improve the informed …

[HTML][HTML] Mobile digital education for health professions: systematic review and meta-analysis by the digital health education collaboration

G Dunleavy, CK Nikolaou, S Nifakos, R Atun… - Journal of medical …, 2019 - jmir.org
Background There is a pressing need to implement efficient and cost-effective training to
address the worldwide shortage of health professionals. Mobile digital education …

Virtual reality distraction for acute pain in children

V Lambert, P Boylan, L Boran, P Hicks… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Virtual reality (VR) computer technology creates a simulated environment,
perceived as comparable to the real world, with which users can actively interact. The …