Support Summaries

Start date: 2010-03-29

• Does use of local opinion leaders improve professional practice and patient outcomes?
• What are the impacts of discharge planning from hospital?
• Are tailored strategies effective for changing healthcare professional practice?
• Does public disclosure of performance data improve quality of healthcare?
• What are the effects of interventions to improve adherence to medication?
• Does practice facilitation in primary care settings improve adoption of evidence-based guidelines?
• What is the impact of increasing salaries on improving the performance of health professionals in the public sector?
• Does interactive communication between primary care physicians and specialists improve patient outcomes?
• What are the effects of reference pricing and other pharmaceutical pricing and purchasing policies?
• Do continuing education meetings and workshops for healthcare professionals improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes?
• How do pharmaceutical policies that restrict reimbursement for selected medications effect health outcomes, drug use and expenditures, and healthcare utilization?
• Which interventions increase the recruitment and retention of health professionals practising in underserved and rural areas?
• Are interventions to increase hand hygiene among healthcare workers effective?
• Does additional social support during at-risk pregnancy improve perinatal outcomes?
• What are the benefits and harms of direct to consumer advertising?
• Which interventions improve the management of dual practice?
• Do emergency obstetric referral interventions reduce maternal and neonatal mortalities in low- and middle-income countries?
• Do paper-based safety checklists improve patient safety in acute hospital settings?
• Do conditional cash transfers improve the uptake of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries?
• What are the impacts of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy, research and patient information material?
• Do reminder systems improve the effectiveness of tuberculosis diagnosis and management?
• Do educational outreach visits improve health professional practice and patient outcomes?
• Is peer education an effective method for HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries?
• Do lay or community health workers in primary healthcare improve maternal, child health and tuberculosis outcomes?
• Can in-service health professional training improve the resuscitation of seriously ill newborns and children in low-income countries?
• Do additional services provided by pharmacists reduce healthcare costs or the demand for healthcare?
• How do strategies to change organisational culture affect healthcare performance?
• What are the effects of interventions to improve childhood vaccination coverage?
• How do clinical pathways affect patient outcomes, professional practice and hospital costs?
• Do changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers impact on the supply of health workers?
• Do on-screen, point of care computer reminders improve the processes of care and clinical outcomes?
• Do educational interventions for nurses help to improve leadership skills, behaviour and practice?