Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Alongside the Cochrane Reviews being prepared with a special focus on COVID-19, we have many reviews that provide useful information for policy makers during the pandemic. Among these is a new qualitative evidence synthesis from March 2020 on the use of mobile devices by health workers. In this podcast, Adriaan Odendaal speaks to lead author Willem Odendaal from the South African Medical Research Council about the review ’s findings and its relevance to COVID-19. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Alongside the Cochrane Reviews being prepared with a special focus on COVID-19, we have many reviews that provide useful information for policy makers during the pandemic. Among these is a new qualitative evidence synthesis from March 2020 on the use of mobile devices by health workers. In this podcast, Adriaan Odendaal speaks to lead author Willem Odendaal from the South African Medical Research Council about the review ’s findings and its relevance to COVID-19. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to treat individuals with COVID-19
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, we published our first update of the review of convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin and we asked its lead author, Vanessa Piechotta from the University Hospital Cologne in Germany, to tell us what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Interventions available during pandemics for heavy menstrual bleeding: an overview of Cochrane Reviews
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for healthcare systems. Interventions which were routinely delivered before 2020 are now difficult to administer and it is important to identify the effectiveness of interventions that are available. One way to do this is through focused overviews of existing reviews and this was done in July 2020 for interventions for heavy menstrual bleeding. In this podcast, Dr Martin Hirsch from University College Hospitals talks to Dr James Duffy from King ’s Fertility about the findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Exercise for dysmenorrhoea
Dysmenorrhoea is the medical name given to painful uterine cramps of menstrual origin, which is also known as period pain. There are several Cochrane Reviews of ways that might ease this and the one investigating the benefits of exercise was updated in September 2019. Here ’s one of the authors, Jane Chalmers from Western Sydney University in Australia, to tell us what it found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
