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Treatment

• Home visits by paraprofessionals did not improve maternal and child health (1 January, 2003)
• A behavioural infant sleep intervention resolved sleep problems (1 January, 2003)
• Review: extended stimulant medication is effective in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (1 January, 2003)
• Review: “Scared Straight” and other juvenile awareness programmes increase criminal behaviour (1 January, 2003)
• Review: primary prevention strategies do not delay initiation of intercourse, improve contraceptive use, or reduce pregnancies in adolescent women (1 January, 2003)
• Mifepristone was more effective than the Yuzpe regimen for emergency contraception (1 January, 2003)
• Review: antibiotic treatment for 7–14 days reduces treatment failure in children with urinary tract infection (1 January, 2003)
• Review: probiotics are effective in preventing antibiotic associated diarrhoea (1 January, 2003)
• Treatment of scalp lacerations with a hair apposition technique reduced scarring, pain, and procedure duration compared with suturing (1 January, 2003)
• Review: chlorhexidine gluconate is more effective than povidone-iodine for preventing vascular catheter related bloodstream infection (1 January, 2003) Free
• Review: organisational change and patient directed strategies may increase adult immunisation and cancer screening (1 January, 2003)
• Oestrogen plus progestin increased coronary heart disease and breast cancer in postmenopausal women (1 January, 2003)
• Nurse led transitional care improved health related quality of life and reduced emergency department use for heart failure (1 January, 2003)