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Treatment

• Use of 2% lidocaine gel during bladder catheterisation did not reduce procedure related pain in young children (24 March, 2006)
• Need for endoscopic removal of oesophageal coins in children was similar for strategies of immediate removal and watchful waiting (24 March, 2006)
• Review: antibiotics are more effective than placebo for acute bacterial rhinosinusitis (24 March, 2006)
• Review: physical training increases cardiopulmonary fitness in asthma and does not decrease lung function (24 March, 2006)
• Paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and combination treatment did not differ for pain relief after musculoskeletal injury (24 March, 2006)
• Review: dietary intervention plus exercise is no better than dietary intervention alone for inducing long term weight loss (24 March, 2006)
• Review: dietary plus pharmacological intervention (orlistat or sibutramine) induces long term weight loss in overweight or obese adults (24 March, 2006)
• Review: dietary advice improves dietary intake and reduces cardiovascular risk factors (24 March, 2006)
• Inhaled insulin added to or replacing 2 oral agents reduced haemoglobin A_1c concentrations in type 2 diabetes

  (24 March, 2006) Free
• Review: antibiotic prophylaxis reduces mortality in patients with neutropenia (24 March, 2006)
• Review: once daily LMWH is as effective as twice daily LMWH for initial treatment of venous thromboembolism (24 March, 2006)
• Supplemental perioperative oxygen at 80% FIO₂ reduced surgical site infections in elective colorectal surgery

  (24 March, 2006)
• Management of critically ill patients with a pulmonary artery catheter did not reduce all cause mortality (24 March, 2006)
• Review: hospital based case management does not reduce length of hospital stay or readmissions in adults (24 March, 2006)
• A telephone intervention reduced combined all cause mortality or admission for worsening heart failure in chronic heart failure (24 March, 2006)
• Review: existing evidence does not support nurse led interventions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (24 March, 2006)