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Treatment

• Review: early postnatal corticosteroids reduce chronic lung disease in preterm infants, but increase complications (1 January, 2002)
• Review: moderately early postnatal corticosteroids reduce chronic lung disease and mortality in preterm infants, but increase complications (1 January, 2002)
• Review: self help, media-based therapy is effective for behaviour problems in children (1 January, 2002)
• Review: family and parenting interventions reduce subsequent arrests and length of time in institutions in youths with conduct disorder and delinquency (1 January, 2002)
• Review: albumin administration is not associated with excess mortality in acutely ill patients (1 January, 2002)
• Review: double bag or Y-set systems reduce peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (1 January, 2002)
• Total contact casts were better than removable cast walkers or half shoes for healing diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers (1 January, 2002)
• Listening to music during ambulatory ophthalmic surgery reduced blood pressure, heart rate, and perceived stress (1 January, 2002)
• An audiotaped information programme after coronary artery bypass surgery improved physical functioning in women and psychological distress in men (1 January, 2002)
• Review: specialised multidisciplinary follow up reduces hospital admissions but not mortality in patients with heart failure (1 January, 2002)
• An outpatient geriatric evaluation and management programme was more effective than usual care in preventing functional decline in high risk older adults (1 January, 2002)
• Review: pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions improve outcomes in patients with dementia and their caregivers (1 January, 2002)
• Training family care givers of people with dementia to think in a more clinical manner decreased depression and the sense of burden (1 January, 2002)
• A home based, nurse delivered exercise programme reduced falls and serious injuries in people ≥80 years of age (1 January, 2002)
• Review: hip protectors reduce hip fractures after falls in elderly people living in institutions or supported home environments (1 January, 2002)
• Preoperative pillow placement under the injured extremity had better analgesic effects than skin traction for hip fracture (1 January, 2002)