Effectiveness in Health Visiting and Public Health Nursing
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| The following references on the effectiveness of health/home visiting have been selected from evidence based resources available on the Internet. This page will also include studies/research in effectiveness of issues that concern health visitors/community nurses. |
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Systematic Reviews/Effectiveness in Health Visiting
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Other Studies in Effectiveness
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| Systematic Reviews in Health/Home Visiting |
| The following are some examples of systematic reviews listed in theDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) |
| To view the full record, search the Database at http://144.32.228.3/scripts/WEBC.EXE/NHSCRD/start |
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Studies from other sources include:
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Elkan R, Kendrick D, Hewitt M, Robinson J J A, Tolley K et al.
The effectiveness of domiciliary health visiting: a systematic review of international studies and a selective review of the British literature. |
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Kendrick D, Hewitt M, Dewey M, Elkan R, Blair M, Robinson J, Williams D, Brummell K..
The effect of home visiting programmes on uptake of childhood immunization: a systematic review and meta-analysis. |
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NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHSCRD) 1997 [Effective Health Care 3(1)): pp.12.]
Preventing and reducing the adverse effects of unintended teenage pregnancies. NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination York: NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. 1997. [Effective Health Care 3(1)). pp.12] |
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Blondel B, Breart G.
Home visits for pregnancy complications and management of antenatal care: an overview of three randomized controlled trials. [British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1992; 99(4): 283-6.] |
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The DARE database will also give other references on the effectiveness of health visting interventions. Search the database for:
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Ciliska, Donna et al.
The Effectiveness of Home Visiting as a delivery strategy for public health nursing interventions to clients in the prenatal and postnatal period : A Systematic Review [Primary Care Research and Development, Vol. 2 (1) January 2001] |
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Pre-school hearing, speech, language and vision screening.
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Preventing falls and subsequent injury in older people. University of York. NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination; University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health Effective Health Care, 1996, 2(4), 16p.
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Does home visiting prevent childhood injury: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Roberts I, Kramer M, Suissa S BMJ, 1996, 312, pp. 29-33
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| Other Studies in Effectiveness |
| Treatments for infant colic |
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School Health Services
Lister-Sharp D, Chapman S, Stewart-Brown S, Sowden A.. Health Technology Assessment 1999; 3(22): 1-207.
Health promoting schools and health promotion in schools: two systematic reviews. |
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Dental Health
University of York: NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Fluoridation of Drinking Water: A Systematic Review of its Efficacy and Safety |
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| Evidence from Systematic Reviews of Research Relevant to Implementing the 'Wider Public Health' Agenda |
| Department of Health - A Research and Development Strategy for Public Health |
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| For more information on resources for Evidence Based Practice, go to Links |
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