The seventh issue of the The Cochrane Library for 2010 included 82 new and updated reviews, 24 of which cover all Cochrane reviews in the National Health Priority Areas, and the Effective Practice and Organisation of Care, Consumers and Communications and Health Promotion and Public Health Cochrane review groups.  Scroll through this page to browse the titles.  Each title is linked directly to the full review.  Through national access to Wiley, there is no need to log in so we can now link directly to the full review. 

The full list of new and updated reviews can be found on The Cochrane Collaboration website.  We are currently working with the Department to identify which of these reviews to summarise. We expect that these reviews will reflect current priorities and programs in the Department.  The summaries will be available on this website later this year and highlight interventions that work, don't work and those for which more research is required.  Read the summaries produced so far by following the links in the menu on the left hand side of this page.  

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Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease

• Tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis

Asthma

• Dietary marine fatty acids (fish oil) for asthma in adults and children

• Ketotifen alone or as additional medication for long-term control of asthma and wheeze in children

Cancer

• Drug therapy for the management of cancer-related fatigue

• High dose rate versus low dose rate intracavity brachytherapy for locally advanced uterine cervix cancer

• Interventions for treating oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving treatment

• Nutritional support in children and young people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy

• Palliative surgery versus medical management for bowel obstruction in ovarian cancer 

• Radiotherapy versus open surgery versus endolaryngeal surgery (with or without laser) for early laryngeal squamous cell cancer

Cardiovascular Disease

• Antiplatelet and anticoagulation for patients with prosthetic heart valves

• Circuit class therapy for improving mobility after stroke

• Mediastinal chest drain clearance for cardiac surgery

• Vasoactive drugs for acute stroke

Consumers and Communication Reviews

• Promoting patient uptake and adherence in cardiac rehabilitation

Diabetes

• Screening and subsequent management for gestational diabetes for improving maternal and infant health 

Effective Practice and Organisation of Care

• Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs

• Effect of outpatient pharmacists' non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns

Injury

• Bradykinin beta-2 receptor antagonists for acute traumatic brain injury

• Functional capacity evaluations for the prevention of occupational re-injuries in injured workers

• Music therapy for acquired brain injury

Mental Health

• Beta-blocker supplementation of standard drug treatment for schizophrenia 

• Combined pharmacotherapy and psychological therapies for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Public Health

• Hormonal contraceptives for contraception in overweight or obese women

• Interventions for preoperative smoking cessation  

The complete list of all new and updated Cochrane reviews is available on The Cochrane Collaboration website.

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