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posted on: 1 Aug 2009 - 16:24
Update from the Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group
This has been a busy year for the Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group. We had workshops in Milan, Freiburg, Amsterdam (thanks to Rob Scholten), Edinburgh and Austria, which were excellent opportunities to help review authors tackle adverse effects. More workshops will be held in October 2009 at the Colloquium in Singapore.Andrew Herxheimer spoke on adverse effects at the US Cochrane Center... read more
Tags: Methods groups
posted on: 1 Aug 2009 - 16:15
Diagnostic Test Accuracy Review Training in Canada
With The Cochrane Collaboration now undertaking reviews of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) and recognising the need for training in Canada, Dr Madhukar Pai (Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group and based at McGill University) and Dr Mariska Leeflang (Joint Coordinator of the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group and based at the University of Amsterdam) co‐taught a... read more
posted on: 1 Aug 2009 - 16:07
The Cochrane Library makes an impact
The results for the 2008 impact factor are in and citations are on the rise. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has an impact factor of 5.182; up from 4.654 in 2007. This has allowed the database tomove up two positions to 12th out of 107 in the ISI category Medicine, General & Internal.To learn more about the impact factor and The Cochrane Library’s rankings, please visit http://... read more
Tags: Cochrane Library
posted on: 1 Aug 2009 - 16:02
First Cochrane symposium in the Arabian Gulf
To coincide with the Monitoring and Registration Group’s meeting, the Bahrain Branch of the UK Cochrane Centre (UKCC) hosted the first Cochrane symposium held in the Arabian Gulf (1‐2 June 2009), on the topic of ‘evidence‐based medicine and health promotion: research into practice’. The two‐day event was jointly organised by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE, UK),... read more
Tags: Centres, Conferences & Meetings
posted on: 1 Aug 2009 - 15:44
Update from the Monitoring and Registration Group (MRG)
The MRG held its most recent meeting in Bahrain in late May, at the invitation of Zbys Fedorowicz, a CRG representative on the MRG and Steering Group, and Director of the Bahrain Branch of the UK Cochrane Centre. We would like to extend our thanks to Zbys and his wife, Ruri, for their excellent hospitality during our stay, including a dinner party at their home near Manama, Bahrain’s capital... read more
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