Consumer guidelines for chronic disease management |
Consumer involvement in the development of healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and information for patients |
Consumer-delivered training in intimate examination skills for healthcare students and professionals |
Contact tracing methods for tuberculosis |
Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness |
Contingency management for substance use disorders |
Continuation versus discontinuation of intravenous oxytocin in the active phase of labour |
Continued lamivudine for adults with lamivudine-resistant chronic hepatitis B virus infection |
Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on healthcare professionals’ practice and on patients’ health |
Continuity of caregivers for care during pregnancy and childbirth |
Continuous and individual interrupted sutures for repair of episiotomy or second-degree tears |
Continuous cardiotocography (CTG) as a form of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) for fetal assessment during labour |
Continuous chest compression versus interrupted chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of non-asphyxial out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) |
Continuous delivery of a local anaesthetic around the wound to treat pain after bowel surgery through a vertical cut in the abdomen |
Continuous electronic heart rate monitoring for fetal assessment during labor |
Continuous epidural analgesia is superior to intravenous opioid patient-controlled analgesia in relieving postoperative pain for up to 72 hours after abdominal surgery |
Continuous glucose monitoring systems for monitoring cystic fibrosis‐related diabetes |
Continuous glucose monitoring systems for the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes |
Continuous glucose monitoring systems for type 1 diabetes mellitus |
Continuous glucose monitoring systems for type 2 diabetes mellitus |
Continuous heparin infusion to prevent thrombosis and catheter occlusion in neonates with peripherally placed percutaneous central venous catheters |
Continuous infusion of loop diuretics are safer and more effective than intermittent administration for people with congestive heart failure |
Continuous infusion versus intermittent bolus doses of indomethacin for patent ductus arteriosus closure in symptomatic preterm infants |
Continuous infusion versus intermittent flushing to prevent loss of function of peripheral intravenous catheters used for drug administration in newborn infants |
Continuous nasogastric milk feeding versus intermittent bolus milk feeding for preterm infants less than 1500 grams |
Continuous negative extrathoracic pressure or continuous positive airway pressure for children with acute respiratory failure and shortage of oxygen |
Continuous or intermittent monitoring of people with acute stroke |
Continuous passive motion after knee replacement surgery |
Continuous passive motion therapy for preventing venous thromboembolism after total knee replacement (arthroplasty) |
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for acute bronchiolitis in children |
Continuous positive airway pressure delivery interfaces for obstructive sleep apnoea in adults |
Continuous positive airway pressure for apnoea of prematurity |
Continuous positive airway pressure for cardiovascular disease associated with sleep apneoa |
Continuous positive airway pressure versus theophylline for apnea in preterm infants |
Continuous positive airways pressure for relieving signs and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea |
Continuous positive airways pressure for respiratory distress in preterm infants |
Continuous quality improvement: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes in primary care |
Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) versus multiple insulin injections for type 1 diabetes mellitus |
Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion versus multiple daily injections of insulin for pregnant women with diabetes |
Continuous support for women during childbirth |
Continuous ultrasound to the hand benefits grip strength in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) |
Continuous venous blood filtration for severe acute pancreatitis |
Continuous versus intermittent beta-agonists for acute asthma |
Continuous versus intermittent bolus feeding for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease |
Continuous versus interrupted stitches for closing the skin after non-childbirth surgery |
Continuous versus pulsatile oxytocin administration for the augmentation of labour |
Contraception decision aids to improve care and effective method use |
Contraception interventions for women seeking abortion |
Contraceptive pills and venous thrombosis |
Contracting out to improve the use of clinical health services and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries |
Contracts between patients and healthcare practitioners for improving patients' adherence to recommended healthcare activities |
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound compared with computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography-computed tomography for diagnosing liver metastases in people with newly diagnosed colorectal cancer |
Contribution types and membership points |
Control interventions for preventing spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in hospitals |
Control interventions in randomised trials for people with a mental health disorder |
Control interventions in randomised trials for people with a mental health disorder |
Control methods for and |
Controlled hypotension versus normotensive resuscitation strategy for people with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm |
Controlled ovarian stimulation protocols for assisted reproduction: a network meta-analysis |
Controlled studies for treatment of dysarthia associated with acquired brain injury in childhood urgently required |
Controlling blood glucose in treating diabetic foot ulcers (sores) |
Controlling high blood sugar levels with insulin in people who have had an acute ischaemic stroke |
Convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 |
Convective radiofrequency water vapour thermal therapy for lower urinary tract symptoms in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia |
Conventional (traditional) chest physiotherapy compared to other methods of airway clearance in people with cystic fibrosis |
Conventional surgical hemorrhoidectomy results in fewer recurrences than stapled hemorrhoidopexy. |
Conversion of calcineurin inhibitor treatment to target of rapamycin inhibitor treatment versus continuation of calcineurin inhibitor treatment for liver transplant recipients |
Cooling for newborns with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy |
Cooling plus inhaled xenon for newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy |
Cooling the body after resuscitation following cardiac arrest |
Cooling the body after resuscitation following cardiac arrest |
Cooling the brain during surgery to prevent death or severe disability in people with brain aneurysms |
Cooling therapy for acute stroke |
Cooling therapy for acute stroke |
Coordination of care to improve outcomes of emergency medical services |
Copper IUDs versus long-acting hormone injections and implants for contraception |
Cord traction to deliver the afterbirth |
Cordyceps sinensis (a Chinese medicinal herb) for treating chronic kidney disease |
Cordyceps sinensis (a traditional Chinese medicine) for kidney transplant recipients |
Cordyceps sinensis for hypertension in adults |
Coriolus versicolor mushroom in colorectal cancer |
Corneal collagen cross-linking for infectious keratitis |
Corneal collagen cross-linking for thinning of the transparent front part of the eye ('keratoconus') |
Corneal confocal microscopy for the diagnosis of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy in people with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus |
Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease |
Coronary artery bypass surgery performed with versus without cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary bypass in patients with ischaemic heart disease |
Coronary artery bypass surgery versus medical therapy alone for ischaemic heart disease |
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Cortical and deep brain stimulation for functional recovery and reducing complications after stroke |
Corticosteroid eye drops used in addition to standard antibiotic therapy in the treatment of bacterial keratitis |
Corticosteroid injection for de Quervain's tenosynovitis |
Corticosteroid injections for shoulder pain |
Corticosteroid injections for treatment of sciatica |
Corticosteroid regimens for treatment of acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GvHD) after allogenic stem cell transplantation |
Corticosteroid therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
Corticosteroids as stand-alone or add-on treatment for sore throat |
Corticosteroids for acute ischaemic stroke |
Corticosteroids for acute severe asthma in hospitalised patients |
Corticosteroids for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage and primary intracerebral haemorrhage |
Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis |
Corticosteroids for Bell's palsy |
Corticosteroids for cervical ripening and induction of labour |
Corticosteroids for children with septic arthritis |
Corticosteroids for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy |
Corticosteroids for Guillain-Barré syndrome |
Corticosteroids for HELLP syndrome in pregnancy |
Corticosteroids for HELLP syndrome in pregnancy |
Corticosteroids for hospitalised children with acute asthma |
Corticosteroids for induction of remission in Crohn's disease |
Corticosteroids for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease |
Corticosteroids for managing people with tuberculous meningitis |
Corticosteroids for myasthenia gravis |
Corticosteroids for periorbital and orbital cellulitis |
Corticosteroids for preventing complications following facial plastic surgery |
Corticosteroids for preventing graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic myeloablative stem cell transplantation |
Corticosteroids for preventing relapse following acute exacerbations of asthma |
Corticosteroids for preventing serious breathing problems in the newborn after caesarean section at term |
Corticosteroids for pulmonary sarcoidosis |
Corticosteroids for the management of cancer pain in adults |
Corticosteroids for the management of cancer-related breathlessness in adults with cancer |
Corticosteroids for the management of nausea and vomiting not related to chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or surgery in adult cancer patients |
Corticosteroids for the resolution of malignant bowel obstruction in advanced gynaecological and gastrointestinal cancer |
Corticosteroids for the treatment of idiopathic acute vestibular dysfunction (vestibular neuritis) |
Corticosteroids for the treatment of parasitic eosinophilic meningitis |
Corticosteroids for toxoplasma infection in the eye |
Corticosteroids for treating cerebral malaria |
Corticosteroids for treating dengue infection in children and adults |
Corticosteroids for treating hypotension in preterm infants |
Corticosteroids for treating nerve damage in leprosy |
Corticosteroids for treating optic neuritis |
Corticosteroids for treating oral lichen planus |
Corticosteroids for treating sepsis |
Corticosteroids for treatment of leptospirosis |
Corticosteroids including ACTH (adrenocorticotrophin hormone) for childhood epilepsy other than epileptic spasms |
Corticosteroids to treat brain injury |
Corticosteroids used in addition to antiviral drugs in patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome |
Corticosteroids versus placebo and NSAIDs for rheumatoid arthritis |
Cot-nursing versus incubator care for preterm infants |
Counselling and education interventions for promoting adherence to treatment for tuberculosis |
Counselling for mental health and psychosocial problems in primary care |
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Couple and family therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
Couple therapy for depression |
Couple-based interventions for improving dyadic adjustment in people with cancer and their spousal partners |
Covering ileo- or colostomy in anterior resection for rectal carcinoma is associated with less anastomotic leakage, but does not offer advantage in term of 30 days or long term mortality. |
COVID-19 and its cardiovascular effects: a systematic review of prevalence studies |
COVID-19 Rapid Review - Video calls for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people |
COVID-19 Recommendations Map: Turning evidence into policy and practice |
COVID-19 Special Collection: evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation |
COVID-19 Study Register: Cochrane’s curated collection for global researchers passes more than 20,000 references...and counting! |
COVID-19 vaccination for people with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases on immunomodulatory therapies |
COVID-19: Interventions to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection among workers outside healthcare settings |
COVID-19: Making sense of health information |
Covidence continues improvements to streamline Cochrane Reviews |
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Cox-2 Inhibitors in the Prevention of Melanoma |
Cradle hold versus alternate positions for bottle feeding preterm infants |
Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections |
Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections |
Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections |
Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections |
Cranberries for treating asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy |
Creams, lotions and gels (topical treatments) for fungal infections of the skin and nails of the foot |
Creatine for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease |
Creatine for Parkinson's disease |
Creatine for treating muscle disorders |
Creatine for women in pregnancy for neuroprotection of the fetus |
Crisis intervention for people with severe mental illnesses |
Crisis interventions for people with borderline personality disorder |
Critical incident audit and feedback to improve perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity |
Cromolyn sodium for the prevention of chronic lung disease in preterm infants |
Cryoablation versus radiofrequency catheter ablation for AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia |
Cryoplasty for peripheral vascular disease |
Cryotherapy for acute non-specific neck pain |
Cryotherapy for liver metastases |
Cuffed versus uncuffed endotracheal tubes for neonates |
Cuffed versus uncuffed tubes in children aged eight years and under, having general anaesthetic |
Cultural competence education for health professionals |
Culturally appropriate health education for people in ethnic minority groups with type 2 diabetes mellitus |
Culture media for human pre-implantation embryos for in assisted reproductive technology cycles |
Culture-specific programs for children and adults from minority groups who have asthma |
Cultured epithelial autograft in the treatment of acute burn wounds |
Cup feeding versus other forms of supplemental enteral feeding for newborn infants unable to fully breastfeed |
Curative surgery for obstruction from primary left colorectal carcinoma: Primary or staged resection? |
Curcuma longa (turmeric) or its active ingredients for osteoarthritis |
Curcumin for maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis |
Curettage versus other methods of adenoidectomy in children |
Currently available malaria vaccines are not yet sufficiently effective, but new vaccines show promise in early tests. |
Currently not enough evidence that using cisplatin, a chemotherapy (anti-cancer) drug, before other treatments improves the survival of people with advanced bladder cancer |
Currently there is no clear evidence that cholesterol drugs reduce melanoma risk. |
Currently there is no evidence to support the routine use of corticosteroids alone in the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. |
Currently there is not enough evidence to conclude that psychosocial treatments alone are adequate to treat people with opiate abuse and dependence. |
Custom-made foot orthoses for the treatment of foot pain |
Customised versus population-based growth charts as a screening tool for detecting small for gestational age infants in low-risk pregnant women |
Cutaneous antisepsis for prevention of intravascular catheter–associated infection in newborn infants |
Cutting back on sugar-sweetened beverages: What works? |
Cutting down or changing the fat we eat may reduce our risk of heart disease |
Cyanoacrylate microbial sealants for skin preparation prior to surgery |
Cycle regimens for frozen-thawed embryo transfer |
Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors for hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer |
Cycling infrastructure (changes to the road environment) for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists |
Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitors for preventing labour before full-term pregnancy |
Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitors for threatened miscarriage |
Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitors for treating preterm labour |
Cyclobenzaprine drug treatment for myofascial pain in adults |
Cyclofenil is a drug that has been studied in the treatment for Raynaud's phenomenon and associated conditions. It is not used for RP and is an anabolic steroid. See also Cochrane review on Stanazol which is also an anabolic steroid. |
Cyclophosphamide compared to ifosfamide for the treatment of sarcoma in children and young adults |
Cyclophosphamide for interstitial lung disease associated with connective tissue disease |
Cyclophosphamide for treating rheumatoid arthritis |
Cyclophosphamide versus methylprednisolone for lupus |
Cyclosporin (the drug for preventing organ rejection after transplant) as an oral corticosteroid sparing agent in stable asthma |
Cyclosporin A was without significant effects on mortality, liver transplantation, or progression of primary biliary cirrhosis, and patients given cyclosporin A experienced more adverse events |
Cyclosporine A eye drops for the treatment of dry eye |
Cyclosporine A for induction of remission in severe ulcerative colitis |
Cyclosporine for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease |
Cyclosporine for treating rheumatoid arthritis |
Cyclosporine for treatment of active Crohn's disease |
Cyproterone acetate appears to be as effective as other medications for hirsutism in women caused by excessive androgen production by the ovaries |
Cysteine, cystine or N-acetylcysteine supplementation in parenterally fed neonates |
Cytology for the diagnosis of endometrial cancer in symptomatic women |
Cytoreductive surgery alone or combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) for pseudomyxoma peritonei |
Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) for peritoneal metastases in patients with colorectal cancer |
Cytoreductive surgery plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer |
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D-dimer for excluding pulmonary embolism in hospital outpatient and accident and emergency populations |
D-Dimer tests for the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis in symptomatic hospital outpatients with a clinical prediction rule |
D-mannose (sugar tablets) for preventing or treating urinary tract infections in adults and children |
D-penicillamine did not reduce the risk of mortality of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis but increased the occurrences of adverse events |
D-Penicillamine for preventing retinopathy of prematurity in preterm infants |
Daclizumab, an antibody, as possible alternative therapy to interferon beta in people with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis |
Daily intake of 1 gr dietary calcium may have moderate protective effect on development of colorectal adenomatous polyps |
Daily iron supplementation for prevention or treatment of iron deficiency anaemia in infants, children, and adolescents |
Dan Shen agents for acute ischaemic stroke |
Danazol for pelvic pain associated with endometriosis |
Danazol for treating subfertility |
Danazol for treatment of women with symptoms caused by uterine fibroids |
Danazol is an effective treatment for the reduction of heavy menstrual bleeding, but the adverse effects may be unacceptable to women |
Dance therapy for schizophrenia |
Dance/movement therapy for cancer patients |
Danshen (Chinese medicinal herb) preparations for acute myocardial infarction |
Dapagliflozin for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus |
Dapsone as an oral corticosteroid sparing agent for asthma |
Darbepoetin alfa to treat anaemia in people with chronic kidney disease |
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Day 5 versus day 3 embryo biopsy for genetic testing for single gene disorders before embryo implantation |
Day care for pre-school children |
Day centres for severe mental illness |
Day hospital versus admission for acute psychiatric disorders |