Our principles
Our vision is that healthcare decision-making throughout the world will be informed by high-quality, timely research evidence. We will play a pivotal role in the production and dissemination of this evidence across all areas of health care.
The Cochrane Collaboration's work is based on ten key principles:
| Collaboration | by internally and externally fostering good communications, open decision-making and teamwork |
| Building on the enthusiasm of individuals | by involving and supporting people of different skills and backgrounds |
| Avoiding duplication | by good management and co-ordination to maximise economy of effort |
| Minimising bias | through a variety of approaches such as scientific rigour, ensuring broad participation, and avoiding conflicts of interest |
| Keeping up to date | by a commitment to ensure that Cochrane Reviews are maintained through identification and incorporation of new evidence |
| Striving for relevance | by promoting the assessment of healthcare interventions using outcomes that matter to people making choices in health care |
| Promoting access | by wide dissemination of the outputs of the Collaboration, taking advantage of strategic alliances, and by promoting appropriate prices, content and media to meet the needs of users worldwide |
| Ensuring quality | by being open and responsive to criticism, applying advances in methodology, and developing systems for quality improvement |
| Continuity | by ensuring that responsibility for reviews, editorial processes and key functions is maintained and renewed |
| Enabling wide participation | in the work of the Collaboration by reducing barriers to contributing and by encouraging diversity |
Updated on: June 22, 2012, 10:58
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