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Consumers and Communication Group reviews by topic

Issue 2, 2008 of The Cochrane Library included 1 review and 1 protocol on how best to communicate with people about their health and health care.  A full list of topics and reviews can be viewed below. 

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Topic Reviews and Protocols 
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Interventions directed to the consumer Counselling

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Health promotion

  1. Influence of comprehensive versus partial information on consumers' screening choices  [P]
  2. Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport  [R]
  3. Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change  [R]  [S]

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Information provision

  1. Informational video for potential participants of clinical studies used in the process of seeking informed consent  [R]
  2. Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth  [R]
  3. Interventions to support decision making for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care  [P]
  4. Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests  [R]  [S]
  5. Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening  [R]  [S]
  6. Using different statistical formats for presenting health information  [P]
  7. Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials  [R]

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Instruction

  1. Written information about medicines for consumers  [P]
  2. Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home  [R]

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Marketing/advertising  

No reviews currently available for this topic

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Consumer education

  1. Interventions for improving understanding and minimising the psychological impact of screening  [P]
  2. Interventions (non-pharmacological) for preparing children and adolescents for hospital care  [P]

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Reminder systems directed towards the consumer
  1. Interventions for enhancing medication adherence  [R]

  2. Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications  [R]  [S]

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Skills Training

  1. Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs  [R]

  2. Interventions for enhancing the skills of consumers to find, evaluate and use online health information  [P]

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Interventions from the consumer Consumer participation in reviews, committees, policy formulation
  1. Involving service users as researchers for the evaluation of adult statutory mental health services  [P]
  2. Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material  [R]  [S]

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Provider education
  1. Involving service users as trainers for professionals working in adult statutory mental health services  [R]

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Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers

Discussion

  1. Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about their cancer  [R]
  2. Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about a family member's cancer  [R]
  3. Negative versus positive framing of health information  [P]
  4. Strategies for communicating contraceptive effectiveness  [P]

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Interview
  1. Educational interventions for improving the communication skills of general practice trainees in the clinical consultation  [P]

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Negotiation or decision making
  1. Contracts between patients and healthcare practitioners for improving patients' adherence to treatment, prevention and health promotion activities  [R]
  2. Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions  [R]  [S]
  3. Interventions for improving patients' trust in doctors and groups of doctors  [R]  [S]
  4. Interventions for improving understanding and minimising the psychological impact of screening  [P]

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Patient held medical records

  1. Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer  [R]  [S]

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Interventions for communication between consumers Peer Support
  1. Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases  [P]
  2. Peer support telephone call interventions for improving health  [P]

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Individual self-help
  1. Self management education by lay leaders for people with chronic conditions  [R]

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Interventions for communication to the healthcare provider from another source Education programs
  1. Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations  [R]

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Service delivery interventions Structure and delivery of care
  1. Group visits as part of ongoing care for improving health  [P]
  2. Involving service users as service providers for adult statutory mental health services  [P]
  3. Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease  [R]  [S]
  4. Telephone follow-up, initiated by a hospital-based health professional, for postdischarge problems in patients discharged from hospital to home  [R]

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Supportive environment

  1. Family-centred care for children in hospital  [R]

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Placebo effect
  1. Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions  [R]  [S]

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Last updated 12 Jun 2008

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