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TEACH Workshop - New York City, NY, USA
Date: 7-9 August 2013Place: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street), NYC 10029We are pleased to announce the opening of registration to attend "Teaching Evidence Assimilation for Collaborative Healthcare" (TEACH) program in New York City August 7-9, 2013. TEACH is for...
posted on: 15 Jan 2013 - 15:55
GRADE Workshop - New York City, NY, USA
Forming Recommendations Using Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE)Date: 7-9 August 2013Place: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street), NYC 10029Faculty
posted on: 15 Jan 2013 - 15:58
Webinar: Welcome to the Cochrane Colloquium! Tips and Tricks for Newcomers - 15 Aug 2013
This webinar will provide a short introduction to The Cochrane Collaboration and some tips and tricks for making the most of your Colloquium experience. A Cochrane Colloquium is a unique international event from which you can benefit in many ways if you plan carefully: don’t miss any of the...
posted on: 1 Mar 2013 - 21:28
Cochrane Standard Author Training Workshop - Hamilton, ON, Canada
Event: Cochrane Standard Author Training WorkshopDate: 16-18 August 2013Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDetails: Take this three-day workshop to learn the basic skills of conducting a Cochrane Review. Topics include protocols, setting your question, literature searching, study selection,...
posted on: 29 Apr 2013 - 07:53
Introduction to systematic reviews of interventions - Melbourne, Australia
26-27 August 2013Australasian Cochrane CentreSchool of Public Health and Preventive MedicineLevel 5, The Alfred Centre, 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004This two-day course takes a step-by-step approach to the tasks and methods involved in conducting a systematic review to answer a question...
posted on: 18 Jan 2013 - 01:25

Latest Blog Entries

Engagement . . . education . . . empowerment . . . action: The ALOIS Community: Involving caregiver volunteers in research and evidence in dementia
Engagement The Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive improvement Review Group is running a year-long public engagement project, funded by the National Institute of Health Research. The grant was awarded to test the innovative idea of recruiting carers (and former carers) of people with dementia to...
All terms: Consumer Network, Funding & Partnerships, Training
Enabling remote participation at Cochrane meetings: some reflections
Lucie Jones is Project Support and Business Communications Officer at the Collaboration’s Secretariat, and is based at the German Cochrane Centre in Freiburg, Germany Over the past couple of years, as part of my business communications role, I have been asked to provide and run remote conferencing...
Comments: 2
All terms: Colloquium, Conferences & Meetings, Websites & IT
Does Cochrane have a plan for consumer participation?
As part of its funding for a consumer co-ordinator, The Cochrane Collaboration requested that CCNet design a plan for consumer participation in Cochrane Reviews. The Collaboration and CCNet hired consultants who interviewed consumers, editors and authors to identify any gaps in the current...
All terms: Centres, Cochrane Reviews, Consumer Network
What about the outcomes? A consumer point of view.
I have to admit that I have always had problems with outcomes. Death is sometimes listed as a primary outcome, sometimes a secondary outcome; quality of life wanders likewise between the two, as does pain and days in hospital. 
All terms: Authors, Consumer Network, Training
What if there is no clear evidence one way or the other of the intervention under review?
I would like to run past Consumers a problem I have had with comments that have turned up on the Internet that have been taken out of context. I personally have never put anything on the net. Also I have never seen the following subject raised in discussion in Consumer circles when review...
All terms: Cochrane contributors, Consumer Network, Review groups

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