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Consumers and Communication Group reviews by topic

Issue 7, 2010 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
  1. Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease  [P]
  2. Structured telephone support or telemonitoring programs for patients with chronic heart failure  [P]

 

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Health promotion

  1. Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion  [P]
  2. Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport  [R]
  3. Mobile phone messaging for preventive health care  [P]
  4. Policy interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour change  [R]  [S]
  5. Promoting patient uptake and adherence in cardiac rehabilitation  [R]

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Information provision

  1. Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials  [R]
  2. Different communication strategies for disclosing results of diagnostic prenatal testing  [P]
  3. Disclosing to parents newborn carrier status identified by routine blood spot screening  [R]  [S]
  4. Email for communicating results of diagnostic medical investigations to patients  [P]
  5. Email for the management of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders  [P]
  6. Individual patient education for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus  [R]
  7. Information for pregnant women about caesarean birth  [R]
  8. Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities  [P]
  9. Interventions to support the decision-making process for older people facing the possibility of long-term residential care  [R]
  10. Methods for informing people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease of their diagnosis  [P]
  11. Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled healthcare appointments  [P]
  12. Notification and support for people exposed to the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) through medical treatment (iatrogenically)  [P]
  13. Parent training support for intellectually disabled parents  [R]
  14. Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests  [R]  [S]
  15. Telehealthcare for asthma  [P]
  16. Using different statistical formats for presenting health information  [P]
  17. Visual feedback of individuals' medical imaging results for changing health behaviour  [R]

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Instruction

  1. Mobile phone messaging telemedicine for facilitating self management of long-term illnesses  [P]
  2. Telephone interventions for symptom management in adults with cancer  [P]
  3. Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home  [R]
  4. Written information about individual medicines for consumers  [R]

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Marketing/advertising  

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Consumer education

  1. Computer-based interventions for weight loss or weight maintenance in overweight or obese people  [P]
  2. Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicine use: an overview of Cochrane reviews  [P]
  3. Interventions for improving understanding and minimising the psychological impact of screening  [P]
  4. Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in preschool aged children  [P]
  5. Interventions for promoting the use of advance directives for end-of-life decisions in adults  [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  [P]

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Interventions for communication exchange between providers and consumers

Discussion

  1. Email for clinical communication between patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals  [P]
  2. Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about a family member's cancer  [R]
  3. Interventions for improving communication with children and adolescents about their cancer  [R]
  4. Negative versus positive framing of health information  [P]
  5. 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. Consumer-oriented interventions for evidence-based prescribing and medicine use: an overview of Cochrane reviews  [P]
  2. Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases  [P]
  3. Peer support telephone call interventions for improving health  [R]

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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. Advanced trauma life support training for ambulance crews  [R]
  2. Email for clinical communication between healthcare professionals  [P]
  3. Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals  [R]
  4. Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations  [R]
  5. Virtual reality simulation training for health professions trainees in gastrointestinal endoscopy  [P]

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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. Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease  [R]  [S]
  3. Involving service users as service providers for adult statutory mental health services  [P]
  4. Mobile phone messaging for communicating results of medical investigations  [P]
  5. 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 19 Jul 2010

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