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Summaries of selected reviews

Please find links below to summarised versions of selected EPOC reviews in PDF format. We hope to add more reviews to this list. We have also produced a number of summaries relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Summary titlePDF summaryLinks to the
Cochrane Library		Date uploaded
Factors influencing parents’ views and practices around routine childhood vaccines: implementation considerations

PDF summary (English)

PDF summary (Spanish)

Full review

19 October 2021 (English)

18 November 2021 (Spanish)

Educational meetings and workshops for healthcare professionals: What are the effects?PDF summaryFull review

11 October 2021

Using primary-level workers to help people with mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries: What are the effects?PDF summaryFull review30 September 2021
Mobile phone-based decision-support for healthcare workers in primary and community care: what are the effects?PDF summaryFull review2 August 2021
Using mobile phones to notify births and deaths. What is the effect? And what are the implementation considerations?PDF summaryFull review22 July 2021
Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: what are the effects?PDF summaryFull review18 May 2021
Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income
countries: what are the effects?		PDF summaryFull review29 March 2021
Mobile phones for health workers in primary care: implementation considerationsPDF summaryFull review
Podcast		3 April 2020
Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: views and experiencesPDF summaryFull review11 July 2019
Provision and uptake of routine antenatal services: views and experiencesPDF summaryFull review11 July 2019
Reviewing deaths to prevent mothers and children from dying in the future: what are the effects?PDF summaryFull review11 July 2019