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Therapeutics/Prevention

• Randomised controlled trial: Expectant management with close monitoring of mother and neonate should be practised after late preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (17 May, 2016)

  David P van der Ham
• Randomised controlled trial: Physical, nutritional, cognitive and combination interventions reduce frailty in community-dwelling prefrail and frail older people (8 June, 2016)

  Nicola Fairhall
• Systematic review with meta analysis: Nebulised hypertonic saline may be less effective than previously reported in reducing hospital length of stay and admission rate in acute bronchiolitis (24 May, 2016)

  Kevin M Overmann, Todd A Florin
• Randomised controlled trial:

  In H. pylori- infected patients second-line treatment with sequential levofloxacin therapy was more effective than levofloxacin triple therapy but was still suboptimal

  (7 July, 2016)

  Adrian G McNicholl, Javier P Gisbert
• Randomised controlled trial: Short-term health and social care benefits of the Family Nurse Partnership lack evidence in the UK context but there is promise for child developmental outcomes (10 May, 2016)

  Jacqueline Barnes
• Randomised controlled trial: Dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine holds promise as an option for malaria prevention in pregnancy (20 May, 2016)

  Jenny Hill, Feiko O ter Kuile
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Earplugs might reduce intensive care unit delirium but quality of evidence is low (19 July, 2016)

  Anica C Law, Allan J Walkey
• Randomised controlled trial(s): Fusion in degenerative spondylolisthesis becomes controversial…again (7 July, 2016)

  James Weinstein, Adam Pearson