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Treatment

• Early discharge after nurse specialist education and planning plus follow up visits and telephone calls was cost effective for high risk pregnant women and their newborn infants (1 July, 1998)
• Review: sucrose reduces crying during painful procedures in newborn infants (1 July, 1998)
• Review: non-parental daycare has short term and long term benefits for preschool children (1 July, 1998)
• Nurse home visits to low income, first time mothers reduced pregnancy induced hypertension and childhood injuries (1 July, 1998)
• Nurse home visits reduced child abuse and neglect over a 15 year period (1 July, 1998)
• Return of school forms and nurse home visits increased adherence with follow up reading of tuberculosis tests in children (1 July, 1998)
• Stress point interventions for parents of children in hospital with chronic conditions reduced stress and improved child and family functioning (1 July, 1998)
• A social support intervention alone and with reminders improved appointment keeping among patients with chronic illnesses (1 July, 1998)
• Fewer patients dislodged peripheral intravenous catheters with transparent dressings than with gauze dressings (1 July, 1998)
• As needed in line suction catheter changes were as safe as and less expensive than daily scheduled catheter changes during mechanical ventilation (1 July, 1998)