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Treatment

• Review: daily maintenance inhaled corticosteroidsare not effective for children with episodic viral wheeze (1 October, 2000)
• Supplemental oxygen did not reduce progression of pre-threshold retinopathy of prematurity in infants (1 October, 2000)
• Nurse home visits during pregnancy and early childhood had positive effects on aspects of maternal life course 3 years later (1 October, 2000)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy improved psychiatric symptoms in drug refractory schizophrenia (1 October, 2000)
• Automated telephone assessment and education with nurse follow up improved self care and glycaemic control in patients with diabetes (1 October, 2000)
• Review: aromatherapy massage is associated with small, transient reductions in anxiety (1 October, 2000)
• A 0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate in 70% isopropyl alcohol swab was more effective than 2 other methods for intravenous skin antisepsis (1 October, 2000)
• Immune enhancing enteral nutrition reduced mortality and acquired infections in intensive care unit patients with sepsis (1 October, 2000)
• Daily interruption of sedative infusions reduced duration of mechanical ventilation and intensive care unit stay in critically ill patients (1 October, 2000)
• Pelvic floor re-education reduced incontinence 1 year after radical prostatectomy (1 October, 2000)
• Oestrogen plus progestin increased venous thromboembolic disease in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease (1 October, 2000)
• Review: both glucosamine and chondroitin are effective for osteoarthritis, but the magnitude of effect is unclear (1 October, 2000)
• An advance directive programme in nursing homes reduced health services use without affecting patient satisfaction (1 October, 2000)
• Prompt hospital discharge with home care improved physical health and community reintegration and reduced initial length of hospital stay after acute stroke (1 October, 2000)
• Early discharge plus home based rehabilitation reduced length of initial hospital stay but did not improve health related quality of life in patients with acute stroke (1 October, 2000)