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Treatment

• Skin to skin contact with their mothers reduced pain reactions in healthy newborn infants during a heel lance (1 July, 2000)
• Review: glucocorticoids improve symptoms of croup within 6 hours (1 July, 2000)
• A no charge prescription for oral rehydration solution during an initial office visit for acute diarrhoea in children decreased unscheduled follow up visits (1 July, 2000)
• Lactobacillus GG reduced diarrhoea incidence in antibiotic treated children

  (1 July, 2000)
• A school nutrition education programme improved fruit, juice, and vegetable intake, related psychosocial behaviour, and knowledge (1 July, 2000)
• Review: antibiotics for sore throat reduce symptoms at day 3 and the incidence of rheumatic fever and otitis media (1 July, 2000)
• Patients who saw an information video 1 week before colonoscopy had reduced anxiety and better knowledge immediately before the procedure (1 July, 2000)
• Review: psychoeducational programmes reduce long term mortality and recurrence of myocardial infarction in cardiac patients (1 July, 2000)
• Patients in the coronary care unit who received remote, intercessory prayer had fewer overall adverse events, but did not have shorter hospital stays (1 July, 2000)
• Protocol directed sedation by nurses reduced the duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients (1 July, 2000)
• Comprehensive, in-hospital geriatric assessment plus an interdisciplinary home intervention after discharge reduced length of subsequent readmissions and improved functioning (1 July, 2000)
• A semirecumbent body position led to a lower rate of nosocomial pneumonia than a supine position in mechanically ventilated adults (1 July, 2000)