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Treatment

• Clinician advice, an interactive computer program, and motivational counselling during routine medical visits increased reported smoking abstinence among teens (3 October, 2005)
• Review: various devices for delivery of aerosol treatment can be equally efficacious (3 October, 2005)
• Aspirin, 1000 mg, reduced moderate to severe pain in acute migraine headache (3 October, 2005)
• Low dose aspirin lowered stroke risk but not risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular death in women (3 October, 2005) Free
• Review: good evidence supports use of polyethylene glycol and tegaserod for constipation (3 October, 2005)
• Review: non-pharmacological interventions induce or maintain weight loss in adults with prediabetes (3 October, 2005)
• Review: group based education in self management strategies improves outcomes in type 2 diabetes mellitus (3 October, 2005)
• Review: self monitoring interventions modestly reduce diastolic blood pressure (BP) but do not improve BP control in hypertension (3 October, 2005)
• Review: some evidence suggests that cognitive behaviour therapy may reduce chest pain in the short term in patients with non-specific chest pain and normal coronary anatomy (3 October, 2005)
• Review: subglottic secretion drainage reduces ventilator associated pneumonia (3 October, 2005)
• Relaxing hip precautions increased patient satisfaction and promoted quicker return to normal activities after total hip arthroplasty (3 October, 2005)
• Protein energy supplementation of usual hospital diet did not improve outcomes in inpatients with recent stroke (3 October, 2005)
• Timing and route of enteral tube feeding did not affect death or combined death or poor outcome in stroke and dysphagia (3 October, 2005)
• Review: early supported discharge reduces death or dependence after stroke (3 October, 2005)
• Review: counselling and education may improve outcomes in caregivers of patients with stroke (3 October, 2005)
• A multifactorial intervention reduced the mean number of falls but not the proportion who fell in older people with recurrent falls (3 October, 2005)