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Co-ordinating Editor named in 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List
Professor Nicky Cullum, Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Wounds Group, has been named a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Professor Cullum is Professor of Nursing at the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work and is...
posted on: 19 Jun 2013 - 14:09
Cochrane Collaboration announces launch of Publish When Ready model
On 3 June 2013, The Cochrane Collaboration announced the official launch of the continuous publishing model (also called Publish When Ready (PWR)). Going forward, all Cochrane Reviews and Protocols published on the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (one of the databases of The Cochrane...
posted on: 19 Jun 2013 - 09:51
Standard Author Training Materials available in Spanish
Thanks to the efforts of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, especially to Jesús López Alcalde and his team of enthusiatic translators, Spanish translations of the slides "Standard Author Training Materials (SATMs)" (with notes in English) have recently been uploaded to the training website.
posted on: 17 Jun 2013 - 06:02
Launch of the Caribbean Branch of the US Cochrane Center
The Caribbean Branch of the US Cochrane Center (CBUSCC) was launched on 6 June 2013.CBUSCC will represent and promote The Cochrane Collaboration across the English-speaking Caribbean. CBUSCC is located at the University of West Indies (UWI) in Mona, Jamaica. Members of the CBUSCC at UWI include the...
posted on: 11 Jun 2013 - 15:57
First issue of the Cochrane Training newsletter
Cochrane Training is pleased to announce the first issue of the Cochrane Training newsletter, available online at the link listed below.With this new newsletter, we aim to provide information quarterly about Cochrane Training initiatives and their progress, as well as to make information available...
posted on: 5 Jun 2013 - 01:25

Latest Events

Cochrane Training Day - Cairo, Egypt
Cochrane Training Day will include a series of workshops as part of the ongoing training activities to support the preparation and production of Cochrane Reviews by Egyptian contributors.Workshops:
posted on: 6 Jun 2013 - 00:06
Prognosis Research Course - Keele, Staffordshire, UK
Event: Prognosis Research: Concepts, Methods and Clinical Application: International Summer SchoolDates: 26-28 June 2013Location: Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United KingdomPrognosis research provides information crucial to understanding, explaining and predicting future clinical...
posted on: 7 Nov 2012 - 12:12
Workshop on Evidence-Based Practice - Oxford, UK
Date: Wednesday 26 June 2013Time: 9am-5pmVenue: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA, UKCentre for Evidence-based Medicine, Oxford, UKOnline RegistrationWho should attend this workshop?
posted on: 7 Jun 2013 - 12:25
Systematic Review Course - Nottingham, UK
Event: The Nottingham Systematic Review Course 2013Date: 2-5 July 2013Location: The University of Nottingham, UKDetails: This course will appeal to all those interested in completing a Cochrane-style review. Experienced tutors and facilitators will be available to give you practical and individual...
posted on: 11 Jan 2013 - 08:58
Introduction to writing a Cochrane systematic review - Sydney, Australia
3-5 July 2013Kerry Packer Institute for Child Health Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW 2145This three-day workshop is designed for new authors starting a Cochrane systematic review. A mixture of presentations and hands-on sessions will give you...
posted on: 18 Jan 2013 - 03:36

Latest Blog Entries

African Cochrane Indaba: Reflections from a newbie Cochranite
Solange Durão is a senior scientist at the South African Cochrane Centre (SACC), South African Medical Research Council. She is a Cochrane author and a peer reviewer for the Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems and Public Health Review Groups.
Comments: 1
All terms: Centres, Cochrane contributors, Conferences & Meetings, Evidence-based health care, Low and middle income countries
The African Cochrane Indaba: a Zimbabwean woman's experience
Sarah Manyame is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and lectures at the University of Zimbabwe. She is an author with the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group. Here, in the second in a series of Cochrane Blog posts from participants at the recent African Cochrane Indaba, Sarah describes her...
All terms: Authors, Cochrane contributors, Cochrane Reviews, Conferences & Meetings, Evidence-based health care, Low and middle income countries
Cochrane and Africa: reflections on the African Cochrane Indaba
Lawrence Mbuagbaw is an author of four Cochrane Reviews, and mentors first-time authors working on HIV/AIDS reviews. In addition, he co-ordinates Cochrane training activities in Cameroon, and strongly advocates the translation of Cochrane products into French. Here, in the first of a series of...
Comments: 2
All terms: Cochrane contributors, Conferences & Meetings, Low and middle income countries
AllTrials? The impending data deluge and why we need technological solutions
Chris Mavergames is the Director of Web Development for The Cochrane Collaboration. In this follow-up post to Toby Lasserson’s recent blog, Chris offers his view on how technology and knowledge management solutions will need to be brought to bear on the potential large influx of raw data from...
All terms: Cochrane Reviews, Evidence-based health care, Websites & IT
AllTrials: AllChange?
Toby Lasserson has been a Senior Editor at the Cochrane Editorial Unit (CEU) since 2010. In this blog he offers his thoughts on how recent developments around the AllTrials campaign might influence the future of systematic reviewing.  
All terms: Cochrane contributors, Cochrane Library, Cochrane Reviews

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