Forms of care of unknown effectiveness
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.
Female Genital Mutilation
Fertility regulation
- Combined hormonal versus nonhormonal versus progestin-only contraception in lactation
- Treatment of vaginal bleeding irregularities induced by progestin-only contraceptives
Gynaecological cancer
HIV
Maternal health
- Alternative magnesium sulfate regimens for women with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Antenatal cardiotocography for fetal assessment
- Antenatal lower genital tract infection screening and treatment programmes for preventing preterm delivery
- Antibiotics for incomplete abortion
- Antibiotics for prelabour rupture of membranes at or near term
- Antihypertensive drug therapy for mild-to-moderate hypertension during pregnancy
- Bed rest in singleton pregnancies for preventing preterm birth
- Early compared with delayed oral fluids and food after caesarean section
- Effect of partogram use on outcomes for women in spontaneous labour at term
- Energy and protein intake in pregnancy
- Interventionist versus expectant care for severe pre-eclampsia before term
- Interventions for suspected placenta praevia
- Methods of repair for obstetric anal sphincter injury
- Progestogen for preventing miscarriage
- Routine symphysis-fundal height measurement during pregnancy
- Treatment for women with postpartum iron-deficiency anaemia
- Treatments for iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
- Uterine massage for preventing postpartum haemorrhage
- Vaginal chlorhexidine during labour for preventing maternal and neonatal infections (excluding Group B Streptococcal and HIV)
- Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy
Newborn Health
- Ad libitum or demand/semi-demand feeding versus scheduled interval feeding for preterm infants
- Anticonvulsants for preventing mortality and morbidity in full term newborns with perinatal asphyxia
- Higher versus lower protein intake in formula-fed low birth weight infants
- Restricted versus liberal water intake for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants
- Sodium bicarbonate infusion during resuscitation of infants at birth