Our priority reviews

We conducted a prioritising exercise within the EPOC editorial team (July 2017) of the reviews in our portfolio. We used the Cochrane Update Classification as a guide and consulted with others working in the field, namely policy-makers and healthcare services researchers. This is an ongoing process, which we prospectively apply to new titles.

Below is the list of our high priority reviews.

Reviews marked update needed require new contributors (or in some cases a completely new author team) to take responsibility for updating and maintaining the review. Please contact us for more information.

Delivery arrangements | Financial arrangements | Governance arrangements | Implementation strategies

DELIVERY ARRANGEMENTS

Admission avoidance hospital at home | LINK
Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of doctor-nurse substitution strategies in primary care: qualitative evidence synthesis | LINK
Birth and death notification via mobile devices | LINK
Community pharmacy interventions for health promotion: effects on professional practice and health outcomes¹ | LINK
Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital | LINK
Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older people admitted to a surgical service | LINK
Consultation liaison in primary care for people with mental disorders (Update needed) | LINK
Decision‐support tools via mobile devices to improve quality of care in primary healthcare settings | LINK
Delivery arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic review | LINK
Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care | LINK
Discharge planning from hospital¹| LINK
Effectiveness of staffing models in residential, subacute, extended aged care settings on patient and staff outcomes | LINK
Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low and middle income countries: qualitative evidence synthesis | LINK
Factors that influence the uptake of routine antenatal services by pregnant women: a qualitative evidence synthesis | LINK
Frontline workers experiences and perceptions on the provision of integrated care services in primary healthcare facilities: qualitative evidence synthesis
Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes | LINK
Hospitalisation in short-stay units for adults with internal medicine diseases and conditions | LINK
Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries | LINK
Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes | LINK
Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes | LINK
Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care¹ | LINK
Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures | LINK
Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases | LINK
Mobile‐based technologies to support client to healthcare provider communication and management of care | LINK
Mobile‐based technologies to support healthcare provider to healthcare provider communication and management of care | LINK
Non-medical prescribing versus medical prescribing for acute and chronic disease management in primary and secondary care | LINK
Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries | LINK
Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care | LINK
Patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates¹ | LINK
Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis | LINK
Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments | LINK
Routine Health Information System (RHIS) interventions to improve health systems management | LINK
Shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in management of long term conditions | LINK
Strategies for integrating primary health services in low- and middle-income countries at the point of delivery | LINK
Telephone consultation and triage: effects on health care use and patient satisfaction | LINK
The effect of pharmacist-provided non-dispensing services on patient outcomes, health service utilisation and costs in low- and middle-income countries | LINK
Tracking health commodity inventory and notifying stock levels via mobile devices | LINK

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
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An overview of reviews evaluating the effectiveness of financial incentives in changing healthcare professional behaviours and patient outcomes | LINK
Changes in out-of-pocket payments on utilisation of health care services | LINK
Conditional cash transfers: impact on health outcomes and use of health services in low and middle income countries | LINK
Financial arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews | LINK
Payment methods for outpatient care facilities | LINK
Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries | LINK
The impact of user fees on access to health services in low- and middle-income countries (Update needed) | LINK

GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS
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Governance arrangements for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews | LINK
Pharmaceutical policies: effects of restrictions on reimbursement² (Update needed) | LINK
Strategies for expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable populations | LINK

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes | LINK
Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes | LINK
Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes | LINK
E-learning for health professionals | LINK
Impact of public release of performance data on the behaviour of healthcare consumers and providers | LINK
Implementation strategies for health systems in low-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews | LINK
Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes | LINK
Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries | LINK
Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings | LINK
Interventions for increasing the use of shared decision making by healthcare professionals | LINK
Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital | LINK
Interventions for reducing medication errors in hospitalised adults | LINK
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 | LINK
Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients | LINK
Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care | LINK
Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people | LINK
Interventions to optimise prescribing for older people in care homes | LINK
Managerial supervision to improve primary health care in low- and middle-income countries | LINK
Non-clinical interventions for reducing unnecessary caesarean section | LINK
Physical environmental designs in residential care to improve quality of life of older people | LINK
Professional, structural and organisational interventions in primary care for reducing medication errors | LINK
Routine provision of information on patient-reported outcome measures to healthcare providers and patients in clinical practice | LINK
Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice | LINK

1 This review also falls under Implementation strategies in the EPOC taxonomy
2 One of a series of pharmaceutical policy reviews

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