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Treatment

• A cognitive–behavioural parenting intervention reduced problem behaviours in at-risk preschool children and improved parenting skills in socially disadvantaged families (28 September, 2007)
• Review: advance provision of emergency contraception increases its use but does not reduce unplanned pregnancies (28 September, 2007)
• Review: partner notification interventions can reduce persistent or recurrent sexually transmitted infections (28 September, 2007)
• Duct tape was not effective for common warts in adults (28 September, 2007)
• Review: inhaled corticosteroids increase risk of oral candidiasis, dysphonia, and pharyngitis in persistent asthma (28 September, 2007)
• Review: providing patients with written information about medicines does not guarantee increased knowledge (28 September, 2007)
• The Atkins diet led to more weight loss than the Zone diet in overweight and obese premenopausal women at 12 months (28 September, 2007)
• Review: colorectal cancer screening with the faecal occult blood test reduced colorectal cancer mortality (28 September, 2007)
• Irrigation of simple lacerations with tap water or sterile saline in the emergency department did not differ for wound infections (28 September, 2007)
• Systemic warming before, during, and after major abdominal surgery reduced postoperative complications more than warming during surgery only (28 September, 2007)
• Decontamination of the nasopharynx and oropharynx with chlorhexidine reduced nosocomial infections in cardiac surgery (28 September, 2007)
• Review: short duration of bed rest was as safe as long duration after acute uncomplicated myocardial infarction (28 September, 2007)
• A care management intervention improved depression after stroke (28 September, 2007)