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EPOC reviews
| Status | Stage |
|---|---|
- Acute assessment services for patient flow assistance in hospital emergency departments
- Admission avoidance hospital at home
- Adults' views and experiences of vaccines developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Alternatives to inpatient mental health care for children and young people
- An overview of reviews evaluating the effectiveness of financial incentives in changing healthcare professional behaviours and patient outcomes
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Barriers and facilitators to healthcare workers’ adherence with infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines for respiratory infectious diseases: a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis
- Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of doctor-nurse substitution strategies in primary care: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Birth and death notification via mobile devices: a mixed methods systematic review
- Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians
- Care co-ordination interventions to improve outcomes during pregnancy and early childhood (up to 5 years)
- Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people
- Care planning or case management for frequent emergency department attendance in adults
- Case management for integrated care of older people with frailty in community settings
- Chronic disease management programmes for adults with asthma
- Clinical effectiveness of telepharmacy services in patients with non‐communicable diseases in ambulatory care settings
- Clinical pathways for primary care: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, and costs
- Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs
- Collaborative writing applications in healthcare: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Collective leadership to improve professional practice, healthcare outcomes and staff well-being
- Community care navigation intervention for people who are at-risk of unplanned hospital presentations
- Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes
- Comprehensive care programmes for children with medical complexity
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for community-dwelling, high-risk, frail, older people
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older people admitted to a surgical service
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment guided treatment versus usual care for older adults aged 60 years and above with cancer
- Computer-generated reminders delivered on paper to healthcare professionals: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Computerized advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice
- Consultation liaison in primary care for people with mental disorders
- Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Contracting out to improve the use of clinical health services and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
- Coordination of care to improve outcomes of emergency medical services
- Death audits and reviews for reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality
- Decision-support tools via mobile devices to improve quality of care in primary healthcare settings
- Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Delivery of intravenous anti-cancer therapy at home versus in hospital or community settings for adults with cancer
- Dental auxiliaries for dental care traditionally provided by dentists
- Dietary advice given by a dietitian versus other health professional or self-help resources to reduce blood cholesterol
- Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care
- Discharge planning from hospital
- E-learning for health professionals
- Early discharge hospital at home
- Early warning systems and rapid response systems for the prevention of patient deterioration on acute adult hospital wards
- Educational games for health professionals
- Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
- Effect of outpatient pharmacists' non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns
- Effectiveness of different nursing handover styles for ensuring continuity of information in hospitalised patients
- Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units
- Effectiveness of organisational infrastructures to promote evidence-based nursing practice
- Effectiveness of staffing models in residential, subacute, extended aged care settings on patient and staff outcomes
- Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health-worker supply
- Effects of computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSS) on nursing and allied health professional performance and patient outcomes
- Ethical case interventions for adult patients
- Exit interviews to reduce turnover amongst healthcare professionals
- Experiences of conditional and unconditional cash transfers intended for improving health outcomes and health service use: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- External inspection of compliance with standards for improved healthcare outcomes
- Factors influencing the implementation of early discharge hospital at home and admission avoidance hospital at home: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that impact on recruitment to vaccine trials in the context of a pandemic or epidemic: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for adolescents: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence parents' and informal caregivers' views and practices regarding routine childhood vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence the provision of home-based rehabilitation services for people needing rehabilitation: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence the provision of postnatal care by health workers: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Financial interventions and movement restrictions for managing the movement of health workers between public and private organizations in low- and middle-income countries
- First aid training for laypeople
- Follow-up services for improving long-term outcomes in intensive care unit (ICU) survivors
- Follow-up strategies following completion of primary cancer treatment in adult cancer survivors
- General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease
- Governance arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Government regulation of private health insurance
- Guidelines in professions allied to medicine
- Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Healthcare stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of factors affecting the implementation of critical care telemedicine (CCT): qualitative evidence synthesis
- Healthcare workers' perceptions and experiences of primary healthcare integration: a scoping review of qualitative evidence
- Healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of communicating with people over 50 years of age about vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Home or foster home care versus institutional long-term care for functionally dependent older people
- Hospital at home: home-based end-of-life care
- Hospital nurse-staffing models and patient- and staff-related outcomes
- Hospitalisation in short-stay units for adults with internal medicine diseases and conditions
- Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care
- Impact of public release of performance data on the behaviour of healthcare consumers and providers
- Implementation interventions to promote the uptake of evidence-based practices in stroke rehabilitation
- Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Improving adherence to Standard Precautions for the control of health care-associated infections
- Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents
- In-service training for health professionals to improve care of seriously ill newborns and children in low-income countries
- Increasing the provision of physical activity advice by healthcare professionals
- Information and promotional strategies by pharmaceutical companies for clinicians
- Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries
- Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children under five
- Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
- Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Interventions for hiring, retaining and training district health systems managers in low- and middle-income countries
- Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries
- Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings
- Interventions for improving the appropriate use of imaging in people with musculoskeletal conditions
- Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in rural and other underserved areas
- Interventions for increasing the use of shared decision making by healthcare professionals
- Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals
- Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital
- Interventions for reducing wrong-site surgery and invasive clinical procedures
- Interventions for the uptake of evidence-based recommendations in acute stroke settings
- Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in children and adults with overweight or obesity
- Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients
- Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care
- Interventions to improve continuity of care in the follow-up of patients with cancer
- Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care
- Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care
- Interventions to improve professional adherence to guidelines for prevention of device-related infections
- Interventions to improve question formulation in professional practice and self-directed learning
- Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people
- Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings
- Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers, policy makers and clinicians
- Interventions to improve vaccination uptake among adults
- Interventions to increase clinical incident reporting in health care
- Interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a scoping review
- Interventions to increase or decrease the length of primary care physicians' consultation
- Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes
- Interventions to manage dual practice among health workers
- Interventions to optimise prescribing for older people in care homes
- Interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector
- Interventions to reduce emigration of health care professionals from low- and middle-income countries
- Interventions to reduce non-prescription antimicrobial sales in community pharmacies
- Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures
- Interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care professionals during and after a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic: a mixed methods systematic review
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health: identification and treatment of wasting in children
- Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Managerial supervision to improve primary health care in low- and middle-income countries
- Manually-generated reminders delivered on paper: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes
- Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation
- Medical day hospital care for older people versus alternative forms of care
- Medication review in hospitalised patients to reduce morbidity and mortality
- Mobile clinics for women's and children's health
- Mobile technologies to support healthcare provider to healthcare provider communication and management of care
- Mobile-based technologies to support client to healthcare provider communication and management of care
- Models for delivery and co-ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living in aged care facilities
- Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section
- Non-medical prescribing versus medical prescribing for acute and chronic disease management in primary and secondary care
- Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care
- On-site mental health workers delivering psychological therapy and psychosocial interventions to patients in primary care: effects on the professional practice of primary care providers
- Organised trauma systems and designated trauma centres for improving outcomes in injured patients
- Organising healthcare services for persons with an intellectual disability
- Participation of traditional, complementary and alternative health practitioners in conventional health systems in low- and middle-income countries
- Patient reminder and recall systems to improve immunization rates
- Patient-initiated appointment systems for adults with chronic conditions in secondary care
- Patient-mediated interventions to improve professional practice
- Patients record systems: effects on dental practice and patient oral health outcomes
- Pay for performance for hospitals
- Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries
- Payment methods for healthcare providers working in outpatient healthcare settings
- Payment methods for outpatient care facilities
- Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Perceptions and experiences of the prevention, detection, and management of postpartum haemorrhage: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co-payment on rational use of medicines
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of educational or regulatory policies targeting prescribers
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of financial incentives for prescribers
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of policies regulating drug marketing
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of regulating drug insurance schemes
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of restrictions on reimbursement
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of sales and dispensing policies
- Pharmacist services for non-hospitalised patients
- Pharmacists providing prescribing advice and education to healthcare professionals in community, primary care and outpatient settings
- Physical environmental designs in residential care to improve quality of life of older people
- Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments
- Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries
- Primary-level worker interventions for the care of people living with mental disorders and distress in low- and middle-income countries
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Professional interventions for general practitioners on the management of musculoskeletal conditions
- Professional, structural and organisational interventions in primary care for reducing medication errors
- Providing physicians with feedback on medication adherence for people with chronic diseases taking long-term medication
- Provision and uptake of routine antenatal services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Public stewardship of private for-profit healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries
- Quality improvement strategies for diabetes care: Effects on outcomes for adults living with diabetes
- Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings
- Remote digital monitoring for selected chronic diseases in primary health care
- Routine Health Information System (RHIS) improvements for strengthened health system management
- Routine provision of feedback from patient-reported outcome measurements to healthcare providers and patients in clinical practice
- Sensory environment on health-related outcomes of hospital patients
- Shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in management of long term conditions
- Smart home technologies for health and social care support
- Specialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings.
- Stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of factors influencing the commissioning, delivery, and uptake of general health checks: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Strategies for expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable populations
- Strategies for integrating primary health services in low- and middle-income countries at the point of delivery
- Strategies to increase the ownership and use of insecticide-treated bednets to prevent malaria
- Subsidising artemisinin-based combination therapy in the private retail sector
- Substitution of nurses for physicians in the hospital setting for patient, process of care, and economic outcomes
- Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice
- Target payments in primary care: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
- Teaching critical appraisal skills in healthcare settings
- Telephone consultation and triage: effects on health care use and patient satisfaction
- The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists
- The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
- The effect of social franchising on access to and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries
- The effectiveness of strategies to change organisational culture to improve healthcare performance
- The effects of interactive training of healthcare providers on the management of life-threatening emergencies in hospital
- The effects of on-screen, point of care computer reminders on processes and outcomes of care
- The impact of conditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in low and middle income countries
- The impact of post-market regulatory safety advisories on patients, prescribers, and the healthcare system
- The impact of user fees on access to health services in low- and middle-income countries
- The psychological effects of the physical healthcare environment on healthcare personnel
- Tools developed and disseminated by guideline producers to promote the uptake of their guidelines
- Tracking health commodity inventory and notifying stock levels via mobile devices: a mixed methods systematic review
- Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians
- Transition of care for adolescents from paediatric services to adult health services
- Walk-in clinics versus physician offices and emergency rooms for urgent care and chronic disease management
- Improving healthcare professionals' reporting of adverse drug reactions and medication errors
- Integrating interventions for prevention of transmission of HIV from mothers to infants during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding with other healthcare services to increase the coverage
- What are the benefits and harms of patient navigation for children and adolescents with chronic diseases?
- Delivery of healthcare services (110)
- Coordination of care (34)
- Models for delivery and co-ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living in aged care facilities
- Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care
- Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes
- Ethical case interventions for adult patients
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health: identification and treatment of wasting in children
- Care co-ordination interventions to improve outcomes during pregnancy and early childhood (up to 5 years)
- Case management for integrated care of older people with frailty in community settings
- Chronic disease management programmes for adults with asthma
- Clinical pathways for primary care: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, and costs
- Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs
- Community care navigation intervention for people who are at-risk of unplanned hospital presentations
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for community-dwelling, high-risk, frail, older people
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment guided treatment versus usual care for older adults aged 60 years and above with cancer
- Consultation liaison in primary care for people with mental disorders
- Coordination of care to improve outcomes of emergency medical services
- Discharge planning from hospital
- Effects of computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSS) on nursing and allied health professional performance and patient outcomes
- Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions to increase or decrease the length of primary care physicians' consultation
- Acute assessment services for patient flow assistance in hospital emergency departments
- Follow-up services for improving long-term outcomes in intensive care unit (ICU) survivors
- Healthcare workers' perceptions and experiences of primary healthcare integration: a scoping review of qualitative evidence
- Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries
- Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children under five
- Strategies for integrating primary health services in low- and middle-income countries at the point of delivery
- Integrating interventions for prevention of transmission of HIV from mothers to infants during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding with other healthcare services to increase the coverage
- Interventions to improve continuity of care in the follow-up of patients with cancer
- Interventions to improve vaccination uptake among adults
- Patient-initiated appointment systems for adults with chronic conditions in secondary care
- Shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in management of long term conditions
- What are the benefits and harms of patient navigation for children and adolescents with chronic diseases?
- Comprehensive care programmes for children with medical complexity
- Effectiveness of different nursing handover styles for ensuring continuity of information in hospitalised patients
- Information and communication technology (17)
- Birth and death notification via mobile devices: a mixed methods systematic review
- Clinical effectiveness of telepharmacy services in patients with non‐communicable diseases in ambulatory care settings
- Computerized advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice
- Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care
- Patient reminder and recall systems to improve immunization rates
- Decision-support tools via mobile devices to improve quality of care in primary healthcare settings
- Effects of computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSS) on nursing and allied health professional performance and patient outcomes
- Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
- Routine Health Information System (RHIS) improvements for strengthened health system management
- Mobile-based technologies to support client to healthcare provider communication and management of care
- Patients record systems: effects on dental practice and patient oral health outcomes
- Smart home technologies for health and social care support
- Tracking health commodity inventory and notifying stock levels via mobile devices: a mixed methods systematic review
- Mobile technologies to support healthcare provider to healthcare provider communication and management of care
- Healthcare stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of factors affecting the implementation of critical care telemedicine (CCT): qualitative evidence synthesis
- Where care is provided (21)
- Admission avoidance hospital at home
- Models for delivery and co-ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living in aged care facilities
- Care planning or case management for frequent emergency department attendance in adults
- Walk-in clinics versus physician offices and emergency rooms for urgent care and chronic disease management
- Delivery of intravenous anti-cancer therapy at home versus in hospital or community settings for adults with cancer
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older people admitted to a surgical service
- Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units
- Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Alternatives to inpatient mental health care for children and young people
- Home or foster home care versus institutional long-term care for functionally dependent older people
- Hospitalisation in short-stay units for adults with internal medicine diseases and conditions
- Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people
- Medical day hospital care for older people versus alternative forms of care
- Mobile clinics for women's and children's health
- Factors influencing the implementation of early discharge hospital at home and admission avoidance hospital at home: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Organised trauma systems and designated trauma centres for improving outcomes in injured patients
- The psychological effects of the physical healthcare environment on healthcare personnel
- Sensory environment on health-related outcomes of hospital patients
- Early discharge hospital at home
- Specialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings.
- Telephone consultation and triage: effects on health care use and patient satisfaction
- Who provides care (31)
- Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health-worker supply
- Models for delivery and co-ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living in aged care facilities
- Pharmacist services for non-hospitalised patients
- Dietary advice given by a dietitian versus other health professional or self-help resources to reduce blood cholesterol
- Dental auxiliaries for dental care traditionally provided by dentists
- Effectiveness of staffing models in residential, subacute, extended aged care settings on patient and staff outcomes
- Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Exit interviews to reduce turnover amongst healthcare professionals
- Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence the provision of postnatal care by health workers: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Barriers and facilitators to healthcare workers’ adherence with infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines for respiratory infectious diseases: a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis
- Healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of communicating with people over 50 years of age about vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Hospital at home: home-based end-of-life care
- Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in rural and other underserved areas
- Interventions for hiring, retaining and training district health systems managers in low- and middle-income countries
- Effect of outpatient pharmacists' non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns
- Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care
- On-site mental health workers delivering psychological therapy and psychosocial interventions to patients in primary care: effects on the professional practice of primary care providers
- Participation of traditional, complementary and alternative health practitioners in conventional health systems in low- and middle-income countries
- Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Pharmacists providing prescribing advice and education to healthcare professionals in community, primary care and outpatient settings
- Non-medical prescribing versus medical prescribing for acute and chronic disease management in primary and secondary care
- Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments
- Substitution of nurses for physicians in the hospital setting for patient, process of care, and economic outcomes
- Financial interventions and movement restrictions for managing the movement of health workers between public and private organizations in low- and middle-income countries
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases
- Primary-level worker interventions for the care of people living with mental disorders and distress in low- and middle-income countries
- Hospital nurse-staffing models and patient- and staff-related outcomes
- Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of doctor-nurse substitution strategies in primary care: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Who receives care and when (7)
- Adults' views and experiences of vaccines developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures
- Factors that influence the provision of home-based rehabilitation services for people needing rehabilitation: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Perceptions and experiences of the prevention, detection, and management of postpartum haemorrhage: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Provision and uptake of routine antenatal services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Factors that influence parents' and informal caregivers' views and practices regarding routine childhood vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Coordination of care (34)
- Financial arrangements (22)
- Collection of funds (3)
- Insurance schemes (4)
- Experiences of conditional and unconditional cash transfers intended for improving health outcomes and health service use: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Government regulation of private health insurance
- The impact of conditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in low and middle income countries
- Payment for services (9)
- Contracting out to improve the use of clinical health services and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
- Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Pay for performance for hospitals
- Payment methods for healthcare providers working in outpatient healthcare settings
- Payment methods for outpatient care facilities
- Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians
- The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists
- The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies
- Targeted financial incentives for health professionals (6)
- Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- An overview of reviews evaluating the effectiveness of financial incentives in changing healthcare professional behaviours and patient outcomes
- Information and promotional strategies by pharmaceutical companies for clinicians
- Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries
- Target payments in primary care: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of financial incentives for prescribers
- Governance arrangements (16)
- Authority and accountability for health policies (6)
- Governance arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Public stewardship of private for-profit healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries
- Interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of restrictions on reimbursement
- Strategies for expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable populations
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of policies regulating drug marketing
- Authority and accountability for organisations (3)
- Authority and accountability for commercial products (2)
- Authority and accountability for health professionals (5)
- External inspection of compliance with standards for improved healthcare outcomes
- Governance arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions to reduce emigration of health care professionals from low- and middle-income countries
- Interventions to manage dual practice among health workers
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of educational or regulatory policies targeting prescribers
- Authority and accountability for health policies (6)
- Implementation strategies (97)
- Interventions targeted at healthcare organizations (5)
- Collective leadership to improve professional practice, healthcare outcomes and staff well-being
- Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions to improve vaccination uptake among adults
- Quality improvement strategies for diabetes care: Effects on outcomes for adults living with diabetes
- The effectiveness of strategies to change organisational culture to improve healthcare performance
- Interventions targeted at healthcare recipients (4)
- Follow-up strategies following completion of primary cancer treatment in adult cancer survivors
- Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Interventions to improve vaccination uptake among adults
- Physical environmental designs in residential care to improve quality of life of older people
- Interventions targeted at healthcare workers (35)
- Interventions to increase clinical incident reporting in health care
- Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Impact of public release of performance data on the behaviour of healthcare consumers and providers
- Collaborative writing applications in healthcare: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Educational games for health professionals
- Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
- Tools developed and disseminated by guideline producers to promote the uptake of their guidelines
- Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Improving healthcare professionals' reporting of adverse drug reactions and medication errors
- Increasing the provision of physical activity advice by healthcare professionals
- Information and promotional strategies by pharmaceutical companies for clinicians
- Interventions to improve vaccination uptake among adults
- Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes
- Implementation interventions to promote the uptake of evidence-based practices in stroke rehabilitation
- E-learning for health professionals
- Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation
- The effects of on-screen, point of care computer reminders on processes and outcomes of care
- Patient-mediated interventions to improve professional practice
- Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Guidelines in professions allied to medicine
- Providing physicians with feedback on medication adherence for people with chronic diseases taking long-term medication
- Quality improvement strategies for diabetes care: Effects on outcomes for adults living with diabetes
- Managerial supervision to improve primary health care in low- and middle-income countries
- Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice
- Computer-generated reminders delivered on paper to healthcare professionals: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Manually-generated reminders delivered on paper: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes
- The effects of interactive training of healthcare providers on the management of life-threatening emergencies in hospital
- The impact of post-market regulatory safety advisories on patients, prescribers, and the healthcare system
- Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
- Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians
- Routine provision of feedback from patient-reported outcome measurements to healthcare providers and patients in clinical practice
- Interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care professionals during and after a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic: a mixed methods systematic review
- Interventions targeted at specific types of practice, conditions or settings (53)
- Interventions for increasing the use of shared decision making by healthcare professionals
- Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people
- Professional, structural and organisational interventions in primary care for reducing medication errors
- Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care
- Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes
- Interventions to improve professional adherence to guidelines for prevention of device-related infections
- Effectiveness of organisational infrastructures to promote evidence-based nursing practice
- Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in children and adults with overweight or obesity
- Early warning systems and rapid response systems for the prevention of patient deterioration on acute adult hospital wards
- Chronic disease management programmes for adults with asthma
- Clinical pathways for primary care: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, and costs
- Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs
- Computerized advice on drug dosage to improve prescribing practice
- Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings
- Discharge planning from hospital
- Patient reminder and recall systems to improve immunization rates
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older people admitted to a surgical service
- Factors that influence acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for adolescents: a qualitative evidence synthesis
- General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease
- Organising healthcare services for persons with an intellectual disability
- Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
- Improving adherence to Standard Precautions for the control of health care-associated infections
- Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care
- Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients
- Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings
- Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents
- In-service training for health professionals to improve care of seriously ill newborns and children in low-income countries
- Increasing the provision of physical activity advice by healthcare professionals
- Interventions for improving the appropriate use of imaging in people with musculoskeletal conditions
- Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings
- Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital
- Interventions for reducing wrong-site surgery and invasive clinical procedures
- Interventions for the uptake of evidence-based recommendations in acute stroke settings
- Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries
- Interventions to improve question formulation in professional practice and self-directed learning
- Transition of care for adolescents from paediatric services to adult health services
- Interventions to improve continuity of care in the follow-up of patients with cancer
- Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers, policy makers and clinicians
- Interventions to optimise prescribing for older people in care homes
- Interventions to reduce non-prescription antimicrobial sales in community pharmacies
- Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care
- Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section
- Patient-initiated appointment systems for adults with chronic conditions in secondary care
- Physical environmental designs in residential care to improve quality of life of older people
- Professional interventions for general practitioners on the management of musculoskeletal conditions
- Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals
- Death audits and reviews for reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality
- Strategies to increase the ownership and use of insecticide-treated bednets to prevent malaria
- Subsidising artemisinin-based combination therapy in the private retail sector
- Teaching critical appraisal skills in healthcare settings
- Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians
- Medication review in hospitalised patients to reduce morbidity and mortality
- Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care
- Interventions targeted at healthcare organizations (5)