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Effective Practice and Organisation of Care reviews by topic

Issue 2, 2008 of The Cochrane Library included no reviews and 3 protocols on improving professional practice and the delivery of effective health services.  A full list of topics and reviews is given below.

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Topic Reviews and Protocols 
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Reviews of specific types of interventions
Distribution of educational materials
 
  1. Electronic access to health information and/or knowledge by health professionals to improve practice and patient care  [P]
 
Educational meetings (including lectures, workshops and traineeships):
  1. Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Local consensus processes:
  1. Local consensus processes: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [P]

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Educational outreach visits:
  1. Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Local opinion leaders:
  1. Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Patient mediated interventions:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Audit and feedback:
  1. Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Reminders (including computerised decision support systems):
  1. Computer-generated paper reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [P]
  2. Manual paper reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [P]
  3. On-screen computer reminders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [P]

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Marketing:
  1. Tailored interventions to overcome identified barriers to change: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Mass media:
  1. Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation  [R]

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Other:
  1. Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]
  2. Continuous quality improvement: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes  [R]
  3. Educational games for health professionals [R]

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Reviews of specific types of interventions - Financial interventions - Provider oriented

Fee-for-service:

  1. Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians  [R]

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Prepaid (no other description):

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Capitation / Provider salaried service:
  1. Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians  [R]

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Prospective payment:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Provider incentives:
  1. Target payments in primary care: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Institution incentives:
  1. Financial benefits for child health and well-being in low income or socially disadvantaged families in developed world countries  [P]
  2. The effect of social franchising on access to and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries  [P]

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Provider grant/allowance:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Institution grant/allowance:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Provider penalty:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Institution penalty:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Formulary:
  1. Pharmaceutical policies- effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies  [R]
  2. Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co-payment on rational drug use [R]

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Reviews of specific types of interventions - Financial interventions - Patient oriented

Premium:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Co-payment:
  1. Changes in out-of-pocket payments on utilisation of health care services  [R]

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User fee:
  1. Changes in out-of-pocket payments on utilisation of health care services  [R]

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Patient incentives:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Patient grant/allowance:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Patient penalty:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Reviews of specific types of interventions - Organisational interventions - Provider oriented

Revision of professional roles:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Clinical multidisciplinary teams:
  1. Interventions to promote collaboration between nurses and doctors  [R]
  2. Expanding the roles of outpatient pharmacists: effects on health services utilisation, costs, and patient outcomes  [R]
  3. Lay health workers in primary and community health care  [R]  [S]
  4. Consultation liaison in primary practice for mental health problems  [P]

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Formal integration of services:
  1. Strategies for integrating primary health services in middle- and low-income countries: effects on performance, costs and patient outcomes  [R]
  2. Supervision outreach visits to improve the quality of primary health care in low- and middle-income countries  [P]

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Skill mix changes (changes in numbers, types or qualifications of staff):
  1. On-site mental health workers in primary care: effects on professional practice  [R]
  2. Primary and community health care professionals in hospital emergency departments: effects on process and outcome of care and resources  [P]
  3. Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care  [R]
  4. Dietary advice given by a dietician versus other health professional or self-help resources to reduce blood cholesterol  [R]
  5. Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health worker supply  [P] 
  6. In-service training in the care of the seriously ill newborn or child for health professionals in developing countries  [P]

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Continuity of care:

Arrangements for follow up:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Case management (including co-ordination of assessment, treatment and arrangements for referral):
  1. Case management: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [P]
  2. Effectiveness of shared care across the primary-specialty care interface in chronic disease management  [R]

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Satisfaction of providers with the conditions of work and its material and psychic rewards (eg interventions to 'boost morale'):
  1. Preventive staff-support interventions for health workers  [P]

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Communication and case discussion between distant health professionals (eg telephone links; telemedicine):
  1. Telemedicine versus face to face patient care: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Reviews of specific types of interventions - Organisational interventions - Patient oriented

Mail order pharmacies:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Presence and functioning of adequate mechanisms for dealing with client suggestions and complaints:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Consumer participation in governance of health care organisation:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Reviews of specific types of interventions - Organisational interventions - Structural interventions

Changes in the setting/site of service delivery:

  1. Institutional versus at-home long term care for functionally dependent older people  [R]
  2. Hospital at home versus in-patient hospital care  [R]  [S]
  3. Medical day hospital care for the elderly versus alternative forms of care  [R]
  4. Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people  [R] [s]
  5. Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing led in patients  [R]  [S]
  6. Telephone consultation and triage: effects on health care use and patient satisfaction  [R]  [S]
  7. Service organisation for the secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease  [P]
  8. Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses  [R]
  9. Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes  [P]

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Changes in physical structure, facilities and equipment:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Changes in medical record systems:
  1. Nursing record systems: effects on nursing practice and health care outcomes  [R]

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Changes in scope and nature of benefits and services:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Presence and organisation of quality monitoring mechanisms:
  1. Public release of performance data  [P]

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Ownership, accreditation, and affiliation status of hospitals and other facilities:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Staff organisation:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Other:
  1. Effects of interventions aimed at changing the length of primary care physicians' consultation  [R]  [S]

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Reviews of specific types of interventions - Organisational interventions - Regulatory interventions

Changes in medical liability:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Management of patient complaints:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Peer review:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Licensure:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Reviews of interventions to improve specific types of practice Clinical preventive services:
  1. Interventions aimed at improving immunization rate  [R]

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Diagnosis:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Test ordering:
  1. Interventions for improving the appropriate use of imaging in people with musculoskeletal conditions  [P]

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Referrals:
  1. No reviews currently available for this topic

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Procedures:
  1. Pre-hospital emergency pathways for people with suspected stroke  [P]

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Prescribing:
  1. Computerised advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice  [R]
  2. Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients  [R]
  3. Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care  [R]
  4. Pharmaceutical policies: effects on rational drug use  [P]
  5. Pharmaceutical policies- effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies  [R]
  6. Interventions to improve evidence-based prescribing for heart failure  [P]

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General management of a problem:
  1. Improving health professionals' management and the organisation of care for overweight and obese people  [R]
  2. Interventions for reducing preventable drug-related hospital admissions or preventable drug-related morbidity in primary care  [P]
  3. Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings  [R]
  4. Interventions to improve the management of asthma in primary care settings  [P]
  5. Interventions to increase the use of screening and brief intervention programmes for hazardous alcohol consumption by patients in primary care settings  [P]
  6. Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care  [R]
  7. Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care  [R]  [S]
  8. Lay health workers in primary and community health care  [R]
  9. Printed educational materials- effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  [P]
  10. Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in under-served communities  [P]
  11. Interventions to reduce waiting lists for elective procedures  [P]
  12. Outreach and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the prevention of intensive care admission and death of critically ill adult patients on general hospital wards  [R]
  13. Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section  [P]
  14. Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital  [P]
  15. Indigenous healthcare worker involvement for Indigenous adults and children with asthma  [R]

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Patient education/advice:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Professional-patient communication:

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Record keeping:
  1. Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals  [P]

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Financial (resource use):
  1. The impact of health financing strategies on access to health services in low and middle income countries  [P]
  2. Sensory environment on health-related outcomes of hospital patients  [P]

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Discharge planning:
  1. Discharge planning from hospital to home  [R]

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Patient outcomes:
  1. Specialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings  [R]
  2. Specialist home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses  [R]  [S]

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Broad overviews (summaries to provide guidance for different target audiences, such as clinicians, consumers, policy makers, guideline developers, educators etc, eg strategies to introduce clinical practice guidelines)
  1. Guidelines in professions allied to medicine  [R]
  2. Teaching critical appraisal skills in health care settings  [R]
  3. Organisational infrastructures to promote evidence based nursing practice  [R]
  4. Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people  [R]
  5. Incentives and disincentives to participation by clinicians in randomised controlled trials  [R]
  6. Improving surgical practice - a systematic review of effective education strategies to improve surgical technical skills in operative procedures  [P]

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Last updated 12 Jun 2008

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