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Symposium: Methods for Evaluating Medical Tests & Biomarkers - Birmingham, UK
Event: Methods for Evaluating Medical Tests & BiomarkersDates: 15-16 July 2013
posted on: 19 Nov 2012 - 16:23
Introduction to Systematic Reviews - Gold Coast, Australia
The WorkshopThis workshop provides an introduction to systematic reviews, aimed at clinicians who want to understand how to use a systematic review in their practice.
posted on: 19 Feb 2013 - 01:13
Developing a Cochrane Systematic Review - Baltimore, MD, USA
Date: 17-19 July 2013Location: Baltimore, Maryland (USA)Details: This workshop guides participants through the steps of developing a systematic review and includes presentations about Cochrane Collaboration methodology, hands-on practice using the Cochrane Collaboration's Review Manager (RevMan)...
posted on: 27 Mar 2013 - 23:01
Webinar: Summary of Findings tables with GRADE profiler - 30 July 2013
The Cochrane Live webinar series is an opportunity for authors in Australia and the South East Asian region to participate in online, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own desk. Most sessions last around an hour, and cover topics from the basics of planning a review, to...
posted on: 3 Mar 2013 - 05:26
Introduction to writing a Cochrane systematic review - Adelaide, Australia
7-9 August 2013Adelaide Women’s Health Centre, 77 King William Road, North Adelaide SA 5006, Australia
posted on: 18 Jan 2013 - 03:47

Latest Blog Entries

A reality check for systematic reviewers
Sir Iain Chalmers is one of the founding members of The Cochrane Collaboration. Since his retirement as Director of the UK Cochrane Centre in 2003, he has worked with the James Lind Alliance, based in Oxford, UK, which focuses on bringing patients, carers and clinicians together to identify and...
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"Consumers - an ever more significant resource for The Cochrane Collaboration"
Silvana Simi is a long-time and active Cochrane contributor, in addition to her work for the National Research Council in her native Italy. Here she discusses what brought her into The Cochrane Collaboration initially, and the importance of making healthcare information widely available. Cross-...
All terms: Cochrane Reviews, Consumer Network, Evidence-based health care
To all my friends and… fellow travellers
Professor Alessandro Liberati, D
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Improvements in abstracts and plain language summaries needed
Maryann Napoli, Associate Director of the Center for Medical Consumers (New York City), is a member of CCNet’s Geographic Advisory Group as well as the US Cochrane Center’s consumer coalition, Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare.
Comments: 3
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Mammography screening ten years on: reflections on a decade since the 2001 review
Peter Gøtzsche, Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, is one of the authors of the landmark 2001 Cochrane systematic review ‘Screening for breast cancer with mammography’. Ten years on from first publication, he reflects on the review’s impact on healthcare policy and practice.
Comments: 5
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