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Treatment

• Review: continuous nasogastric milk feeding leads to a longer time to reach full feeds in premature infants < 1500 g (1 April, 2002)
• A 30 mg/kg loading dose of acetaminophen was more effective than a 15 mg/kg maintenance dose in febrile children (1 April, 2002)
• Regular drinking of cranberry-lingonberry juice concentrate reduced recurrent urinary tract infections in women (1 April, 2002)
• Review: pressurised metered dose inhalers are as effective as other hand held inhalers for delivering corticosteroids in stable asthma (1 April, 2002)
• Review: pressurised metered dose inhalers are as effective as other hand held inhalers for delivering β₂ agonist bronchodilators in stable asthma

  (1 April, 2002)
• Review: behavioural interventions show the most promise for chronic fatigue syndrome (1 April, 2002)
• A short term education intervention but not peer discussion improved vitality and pain in women with breast cancer (1 April, 2002)
• Warming patients before clean surgery reduced the incidence of postoperative wound infection (1 April, 2002)
• Review: antibiotics reduce wound infections and intra-abdominal abscesses in patients having appendectomy (1 April, 2002)
• Thromboprophylaxis with low dose unfractionated heparin plus compression stockings reduces thromboembolic complications of colorectal surgery (1 April, 2002)
• Review: several techniques optimise oxygenation during suctioning of patients (1 April, 2002)
• Prone positioning for acute respiratory failure improved short term oxygenation but not survival (1 April, 2002)
• Intensive insulin treatment reduced mortality and morbidity in critically ill patients (1 April, 2002)
• Review: multidisciplinary disease management programmes do not reduce death or recurrent myocardial infarction but reduce admission to hospital (1 April, 2002)
• A specialist nurse intervention reduced hospital readmissions in patients with chronic heart failure (1 April, 2002)
• Dietary fibre supplementation with psyllium or gum arabic reduced incontinent stools and improved stool consistency in community living adults (1 April, 2002)
• Review: some herbal medicines and plant extracts reduced pain and disability and improved function in osteoarthritis (1 April, 2002)
• A support programme for patients with dementia and their caregivers lowered institutionalisation rates initially (1 April, 2002)