| Anderson,LA37 1998 | Implementing preventive services | “To determine the extent of change that can be expected
from office-based interventions and the need to assess these effects
across different types of preventive outcomes.…to determine their
impact on three domains of preventive care: screening, immunization,
and counselling.” |
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| Chelf, J120 (2001) | Cancer-related patient education | “To provide an overview of cancer-related
patient-education research to determine future research needs.” |
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| Davis, D38 (1992) | Professional practice improvements and patient outcomes | “To assess the impact of diverse continuing medical
education (CME) interventions on physician performance and health
care outcomes.” |
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| Davis, D39 (1995) | Professional practice and health care outcomes | “To review the literature relating to the effectiveness
of education strategies designed to change physician performance and
health care outcomes” |
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| Dunn, C83 (2001) | Health behavior interventions and outcomes | “To examine the effectiveness of brief behavioral
interventions adapting the principles and techniques of Motivational
Interviewing to four behavioral domains: substance abuse, smoking,
HIV risk and diet/exercise.” |
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| Ebrahim, S40 (1997) | Multiple risk factor intervention and coronary heart
disease | “To assess the effectiveness of multiple risk factor
intervention in reducing cardiovascular risk factors, total
mortality, and mortality from coronary heart disease among
adults.” |
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| France, E41 (2001) | Smoking cessation | “To review the literature on inpatient hospital-based
smoking cessation interventions.” |
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| Freemantle, N42 (2001) | Professional practice improvements and patient outcomes | “To assess the effects of printed educational materials
in improving the behavior of health care professionals and patient
outcomes.” |
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| Grilli, R43 (2001) | Mass media interventions and health service utilization
outcomes | “To assess the effects of mass media on the utilization
of health services.” |
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| Glanz, K82 (1994) | Clinical interventions and community-based
interventions using combinations of educational and environmental
strategies | “To review and summarize evidence regarding the
association of dietary factors, including alcohol intake, with
breast cancer risk and survival, and review investigations of
strategies for dietary behavior change for breast cancer
prevention.” |
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| Rimer, B53 (1999) | Tailored print communications (TPCs) | “Examines the nature of TPCs, assesses the use and
potential of TPCs for the purpose of cancer risk communication
(CRC), and highlights new directions in CRC.” |
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| Simons-Morton, D84 (1992) | Health behavior interventions and outcomes | “To determine the characteristics of controlled studies
(quasi-experimental and randomized) of clinical patient
education/counselling for behavior change to prevent disease.” |
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| Skinner, C54 (1999) | Tailored print communications (TPC) | “Reviews the ‘first generation’ of tailored print
communications studies in the published literature, describing the
purpose, theoretical framework, sample, research design, message
type and source, outcomes measured, and findings of each.” |
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| Thompson O'Brien, M121 (2000) | Professional practice improvements and patient
outcomes; includes cancer pain | “To assess the effects of using local opinion leaders
on the practice of health professionals or patient outcomes.” |
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| Thompson O'Brien, M56 (2001) | Professional practice improvements and patient outcomes | “To assess the effects of educational meetings on
professional practice and health care outcomes.” |
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| Thompson O'Brien, M116 (2001) | Professional practice improvements | “To assess the effects of audit and feedback compared
with other interventions in changing health professional practice
and to assess whether the effectiveness of audit and feedback can be
improved by modifying how it is done.” |
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| Thompson O'Brien, M55 (2001) | Professional practice improvements and patient outcomes | “To assess the effects of outreach visits on improving
health professional practice and patient outcomes.” |
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| Thompson O'Brien, M117 (2002) | Professional practice improvements and patient outcomes | “To assess the effects of audit and feedback on the
practice of health professionals and patient outcomes.” |
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| Viswesvaran, C171 (1992) | Smoking cessation | “To cumulate the results from 633 studies of smoking
cessation, involving 71,806 subjects, that reported the proportion
of successful quits.” |
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| Hulscher, M44 (2001) | Professional practice improvements for delivery of
preventive services | “To assess the effects of interventions to improve the
delivery of preventive services in primary care.” |
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| Ketola, E45 (2000) | Lifestyle interventions and health care outcomes | “To assess the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions
in reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors, morbidity, and
mortality among working-age adults.” |
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| Krummel, D46 (2001) | Cardiovascular health interventions in women - includes
smoking and diet interventions | “To review the literature focused on improving women's
cardiovascular health through behavior change for tobacco use,
physical inactivity, or diet.” |
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| Law, M47 (1995) | Smoking cessation | “To review the efficacy of a variety of interventions
intended to help people stop smoking.” |
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| McDonnell, A48 (1997) | Smoking cessation | “To review current literature to identify a range of
research-based activities which practice nurses might employ in the
primary and secondary prevention of CVD and stroke.” |
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| Meissner, H109 (1998) | Breast and cervical cancer screening interventions | “To evaluate published reports of breast and cervical
cancer screening interventions, and to propose a framework of
critical elements for authors and researchers to use when
contributing to this literature.” |
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| Munafo, M49 (2001) | Smoking cessation | “To determine if providing smoking cessation services
during hospitalization helps more people to attempt and sustain an
attempt to quit smoking.” |
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| Oxman, A50 (1995) | Professional practice improvements and health care
outcomes | “To determine the effectiveness of different types of
interventions in improving health professional performance and
health outcomes.” |
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| Revere, D51 (2001) | Health behavior interventions and outcomes | “To evaluate the evidence of effectiveness of
computer-generated outpatient health behavior interventions -
clinical encounters “in absentia” - as extensions of face-to-face
patient care in an ambulatory setting.” |
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| Rigotti, N52 (2001) | Smoking cessation | “To determine the effectiveness of interventions for
smoking cessation in hospitalized patients.” |
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| Rimer, B15 (1994) | Mammography use | “To provide an overview of trends in mammography use
and review the effectiveness of interventions for increasing use of
mammography.” |