• Evidence Summaries - evidence to help people making decisions about health care in natural disasters and other healthcare emergencies
  
• The Evidence Aid project -
  
  1. Resources for health professionals
  2. The Cochrane Collaboration working party
  3. How you might help
  4. Leaflet on The Cochrane Collaboration's response to healthcare emergencies

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Resources for health professionals

The Cochrane Collaboration is preparing evidence summaries for interventions relevant to health care in natural disasters and other healthcare emergencies, such as those following the 2004 tsunami, and more recent events in the USA and South Asia. These summaries are being included here, along with links to other sources of evidence if summaries are not yet available. It is hoped that Evidence Aid will help government and non-government agencies, other organisations and individuals in planning and making decisions about health care.

Evidence summaries are here. Details of the prioritisation process for topics are here: prioritisation process, list of topics for which up-to-date Cochrane reviews are available, and list of topics for which up-to-date Cochrane reviews are not currently available. Suggestions for changes and additions to the prioritised topics are welcome and should be sent to reviews@cochrane.org.

An article about the Evidence Aid project was published in the June 2005 issue of PLoS Medicine. To read, print or download it click here.

The Cochrane Collaboration working party

• Read The Cochrane Collaboration's strategic response for resources and support
• Membership of the working party
• Bulletins of the working party:
  1. 13 January 2005
  2. 16 January 2005
  3. 20 January 2005
  4. 28 January 2005
  5. 6 February 2005
  6. Teleconference 24 February 2005
  7. 17 March 2005
  8. 8 September 2005
  9. 24 November 2005
  10. Meeting 24 October 2006

How you might help

• Donations to The Cochrane Collaboration: If you wish to make a donation to The Cochrane Collaboration to be used directly in the funding of the Evidence Aid project (for example to fast track review production and/or prepare evidence summaries), please contact the Secretariat for further details (secretariat@cochrane.org or +44-1865-310138).
• Involvement of Cochrane entities: Activities within The Cochrane Collaboration need to be co-ordinated as far as possible, and this should be done through the Secretariat. Please send ideas and suggestions to reviews@cochrane.org.

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