Forms of care with a trade-off
Effectiveness summaries
Pages containing effectiveness summaries classify all interventions evaluated in RHL into six categories based on the degree of their effectiveness as shown below. The purpose of presenting the interventions in this format is to enable readers to determine quickly what the available evidence indicates about each intervention.
Fertility regulation
- Combination injectable contraceptives for contraception
- Medical versus surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
- Minilaparotomy and endoscopic techniques for tubal sterilization
Improving clinical practice
Maternal health
- Alternative versus standard packages of antenatal care for low-risk pregnancy
- Amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling for prenatal diagnosis
- Antiplatelet agents for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications
- Early amniotomy and early oxytocin for prevention of, or therapy for, delay in first stage spontaneous labour compared with routine care
- Effect of timing of umbilical cord clamping of term infants on maternal and neonatal outcomes
- Expectant care versus surgical treatment for miscarriage
- Interventions for trichomoniasis in pregnancy
- Management of gonorrhoea and Chlamydia trachomatis infections in pregnancy
- Regional versus general anaesthesia for caesarean section
- Treatment for suppression of lactation
Newborn health
- Avoidance of bottles during the establishment of breast feeds in preterm infants
- Radiant warmers versus incubators for regulating body temperature in newborn infants