Cochrane Review Group

Effective Practice and Organisation of Care

128 systematic reviews in Effective Practice and Organisation of Care ask 1,852 questions. 30.1% have no studies to answer them, 24.1% rest on very low certainty evidence and 17.3% reach moderate or high certainty.

Reviews

128

Questions

1,852

current versions

No studies

30.1%

Moderate or high

17.3%

No studies 557 · 30.1%Ungraded 53 · 2.9%Very low 446 · 24.1%Low 476 · 25.7%Moderate 255 · 13.8%High 65 · 3.5%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

Search questions in Effective Practice and Organisation of Care

Thinnest evidence

All no studies and very low questions

Question	Effect	Evidence	Status / GRADE
Summary of findings for the main comparison: comprehensive care programmes vs usual care Costs to the family · children with medical complexity Comprehensive care programmes for children with medical complexity (2024) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Summary of findings: Any alternative model of care vs usual care Adverse events/falls: proportion of residents with a fall at longest · residents of aged care facilities Models for delivery and co‐ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living… (2024) · Cochrane	RR 1.15 [0.83, 1.6]	3 studies · 1061 participants	Very low
Summary of findings: Any alternative model of care vs usual care Adherence to clinical guideline‐recommended care: proportion of residents with adequate antidepressant therapy at longest · residents of aged care facilities Models for delivery and co‐ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living… (2024) · Cochrane	RR 5.29 [1.08, 26]	1 study · 65 participants	Very low
Summary of findings: Any alternative model of care vs usual care Resource use: cost‐effectiveness evaluations (6 to 21 months) · residents of aged care facilities Models for delivery and co‐ordination of primary or secondary health care (or both) to older adults living… (2024) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	5 studies · 2341 participants	Very low
Health education vs routine care Occurrence of vaccine‐preventable diseases · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Engagement of community leaders vs routine care Proportion of children under 5 years of age fully immunised with all scheduled vaccines · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Engagement of community leaders vs routine care Occurrence of vaccine‐preventable diseases · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Engagement of community leaders vs routine care Cost of the intervention · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Engagement of community leaders vs routine care Adverse events · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Health education vs routine care Cost of the intervention ‐ reported narratively in 2 studies · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Health education vs routine care Adverse events · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies
Monetary incentives vs routine care Proportion of children who received DTP3 or Penta 3 by 1 year of age · children under 5 years of age Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2023) · Cochrane	no estimate extracted	NR	No studies

Reviews 128

Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians

Vaona, A, Pappas, Y, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2017

Effective Practice and Organisation of Care

Thinnest evidence

Reviews 128

Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians

Payment methods for outpatient care facilities

Interventions to increase or decrease the length of primary care physicians' consultation

Organising healthcare services for persons with an intellectual disability

Professional interventions for general practitioners on the management of musculoskeletal conditions

Interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector

External inspection of compliance with standards for improved healthcare outcomes

Interventions to optimise prescribing for older people in care homes

Mobile clinics for women's and children's health

Transition of care for adolescents from paediatric services to adult health services

Public stewardship of private for‐profit healthcare providers in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Subsidising artemisinin‐based combination therapy in the private retail sector

Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children under five

Tools developed and disseminated by guideline producers to promote the uptake of their guidelines

Non‐medical prescribing versus medical prescribing for acute and chronic disease management in primary and secondary care

Medical day hospital care for older people versus alternative forms of care

Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes

Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in rural and other underserved areas

Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice

Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures

Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of financial incentives for prescribers

Pharmaceutical policies: effects of cap and co‐payment on rational use of medicines

In‐service training for health professionals to improve care of seriously ill newborns and children in low‐income countries