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Therapeutics

• Randomised controlled trial: Preoperative skin cleansing with chlorhexidine-alcohol reduces surgical site infection after clean-contaminated surgery compared with povidone-iodine (1 May, 2010)

  Olivier Mimoz
• Systematic review with meta-analysis: Systematic review finds no difference in effect between home and centre-based cardiac rehabilitation on mortality, morbidity and modifiable risk factors in patients with CHD (1 May, 2010)

  Monica Parry
• Systematic review: Team-based care interventions involving nurses and primary care or community pharmacists improve hypertension control (1 May, 2010)

  Ehsan U Khan
• Systematic review: Current evidence shows no reduction in mortality or re-infarction rate with early mobilisation following myocardial infarction (1 May, 2010)

  Samar Noureddine
• Randomised controlled trial: Ginger reduces severity of nausea in early pregnancy compared with vitamin B6, and the two treatments are similarly effective for reducing number of vomiting episodes (1 May, 2010)

  Caroline Smith
• Randomised controlled trial: CBT improves glucose control and psychosocial factors in type 1 diabetes (1 May, 2010)

  Marcel C Adriaanse
• Randomised controlled trial: Nurse-led postpartum discharge education programme including information on postnatal depression reduces risk of high depression scores at 3-month follow-up (1 May, 2010)

  C Jane Morrell
• Systematic review: Depression screening and management programmes with staff assistance in primary care increase response and remission rates, but programmes without staff assistance do not show benefits (1 May, 2010)

  Steve Wood
• Randomised controlled trial: Nicotine patch plus lozenge gives greatest increases in abstinence from smoking at 6 months compared with placebo; smaller effects seen with nicotine patch alone, bupropion or nicotine lozenges alone or combined (1 May, 2010)

  Lynne Buchanan
• Randomised controlled trial: Culturally tailored intervention for African Americans with type 2 diabetes administered by a nurse case manager and community health worker reduces emergency room visits (1 May, 2010)

  Anne H Skelly
• Randomised controlled trial: Telephone-delivered collaborative care for post-CABG depression is more effective than usual care for improving quality of life related to mental health (1 May, 2010)

  Robyn Gallagher
• Randomised controlled trial: Adding live, reactive telephone counselling to self-help literature does not increase smoking cessation (1 May, 2010)

  Hazel Gilbert
• Pragmatic randomised controlled trial: Advanced practice nurses achieve results equal to or better than those of GPs in cardiovascular risk management in primary care (1 May, 2010)

  Marije Koelewijn-van Loon
• Randomised controlled trial: Telephone behavioural intervention delivered by nurses combined with home blood pressure monitoring improves long-term hypertensive management compared with usual care (1 May, 2010)

  Martha N Hill
• Cluster randomised controlled trial: Hand hygiene and facemask use within 36 hours of index patient symptom onset reduces flu transmission to household contacts (1 May, 2010)

  Dinah Gould
• Randomised controlled trial: Compared with usual care, supervised exercise in primary care for people with patellofemoral syndrome does not significantly increase self-reported recovery, but it improves pain and function in the short term and pain in the long term (1 May, 2010)

  Jyrki Kettunen
• Randomised controlled trial: Small study finds that hydrophilic catheters decrease use of antibiotics to treat UTI in people with spinal cord injury who use self-intermittent catheterisation compared with non-coated catheters (1 May, 2010)

  Katherine N Moore, Mandy Fader