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  • Edinburgh Colloquium 2018: Round-Up
    The Cochrane Colloquium is an annual event, bringing people together from around the world to discuss putting research into important global health questions and promoting evidence-informed health care.  This year the theme is ‘Cochrane for all - better evidence for better health decisions’.  It was a Patients Included event, co-designed, co-...
    26 septembre 2018
  • Statement
    The Cochrane Collaboration’s Governing Board of Trustees voted unanimously on 25th September to terminate Professor Peter Gøtzsche’s membership of the organization, and his present position as a Member of the Governing Board and Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre. Cochrane is a collaboration: an organization founded on shared values and an...
    26 septembre 2018
  • Beyond the Room Edinburgh Colloquium 2018 Podcasts
    For the first time at a Cochrane Colloquium, we took the conversation #BeyondTheRoom. Beyond the Room is a digital conference service, started in 2016 by André Tomlin from the Mental Elf. Its aim is to increase the reach and impact of health events by live tweeting and podcasting from them, to involve people virtually and facilitate a much more...
    26 septembre 2018
  • Ensuring quality as the basis of evidence synthesis
    The foundations of both Cochrane and the wider evidence synthesis community rest on the involvement of methodologists in the production of high‐quality systematic reviews. Epidemiologists, statisticians, and information specialists have had an enormous impact on the evolution of Cochrane and the advancement of systematic review methodology....
    26 septembre 2018
  •  Statement from Cochrane's Governing Board
    Statement made by the Governing Board at Cochrane’s 2018 Annual General Meeting, 17th September, at the Edinburgh Cochrane ColloquiumDear Cochrane members,These are extraordinary times and we find ourselves in an extraordinary situation. Your Board is always happy to answer questions about our decisions, and today is no different. We want to...
    19 septembre 2018
  • An interview on consumer involvement in research with Simon Denegri, NIHR
    For this year’s Patients Included Cochrane Colloquium, Richard Morley interviewed Simon Denegri, National Director for Patients, Carers and the Public, UK National Institute of Health Research. Simon talked about patient/consumer involvement in research, co-production, the role of researchers in meaningfully involving stakeholders, and what...
    18 septembre 2018
  • An Interview with Doug Altman
    Roberto D’Amico from Cochrane Italy shares an interview with Doug Altman. Everyone within the Cochrane community was sad to learn of the death of Professor Doug Altman this year. Doug Altman was a Cochrane leader and pioneer since the Collaboration’s beginning in 1993. He is best known for his work on improving the reliability and reporting of...
    17 septembre 2018
  • Message from the Governing Board
     This week at its meeting in Edinburgh, Cochrane’s Governing Board considered, as planned, the findings of an independent review and additional complaints related to the conduct of a Member. The Board’s conclusion was communicated to the individual concerned and is part of an ongoing process. The Co-Chairs of the Board will provide further details...
    15 septembre 2018
  • Cochrane Switzerland seeks Coordinator
    The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) and the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne (UNIL) offers a position of Coordinator, Cochrane Switzerland, 50%Description:Cochrane (www.cochrane.org) is an international independent network of health practitioners, researchers,...
    11 septembre 2018
  • Inappropriate polypharmacy is a particular concern in older people and is associated with negative health outcomes.
    Taking medicine to treat symptoms of chronic illness and to prevent worsening of disease is common in older people. However, taking too many medicines can cause harm. The Cochrane Review, 'Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people' examined studies in which healthcare professionals have taken action to make...
    11 septembre 2018
  • We are pleased to announce the publication of our organizational Dashboard for the second quarter of 2018.
    We are pleased to announce the publication of our organizational Dashboard for April - June 2018. This Dashboard, which we publish quarterly, presents our achievements in a series of key metrics, such as publishing output, Cochrane Library usage, and progress on meeting Strategy to 2020 targets. Work on Strategy targets is covered in more detail...
    10 septembre 2018
  • How effective are interventions designed to reduce falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals?
     How effective are interventions designed to reduce falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals?Falls by older people in care facilities, such as nursing homes, and hospitals are common events that may cause further loss of independence, injuries, and sometimes death as a result of injury. Effective interventions to prevent falls are...
    7 septembre 2018
  • Pharmacist
     Pharmacists serving non-hospitalised patients, such as in general practices and community pharmacies, may achieve improvements in patient health outcomes according to the most comprehensive systematic review of the scientific evidence to date. This press release originally was posted on the University of Bath website. A team of researchers led by...
    7 septembre 2018
  • Cochrane Evidence
    Updated review: Electromechanical and robot‐assisted arm training for improving activities of daily living, arm function, and arm muscle strength after strokeIn this updated review authors from Germany came together to re-assess the effects of electromechanical and robot‐assisted arm training for improving arm function in people who have had a...
    7 septembre 2018
  • Impact of public release of performance data on the behaviour of healthcare consumers and providers
    Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care  wanted to find out if publicly releasing information about the performance of healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals and individual professionals) has a measurable influence on changing the behaviour of consumers, providers, and purchasers of care. The authors also sought to determine whether...
    6 septembre 2018
  • Cochrane’s Editor in Chief responds to BMJ EBM article criticizing HPV review
     On 27th July 2018, an article was published in the journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine relating to the recently published Cochrane Review on prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines. The article is based on analyses undertaken at the Nordic Cochrane Centre, and two of the authors are experienced Cochrane researchers: Professors Peter...
    3 septembre 2018
  • Iain
    A very special conversation with a maverick British medico who set up a tiny research centre in Oxford and watched it grow into a global collaboration of over 40,000 people across 130 countries. Three decades on, Cochrane  now produces the world's most trusted health evidence that is used by patients, health professionals, researchers and policy...
    27 août 2018
  • The book Testing Treatments has been recently translated into Danish, making it available now in a total of 15 languages with more coming soon.
    The book Testing Treatments has been recently translated into Danish, making it available now in a total of 15 languages with more coming soon.Testing Treatments was written to address a fundamental healthcare question: ‘How do we ensure that research into medical treatments best meets the needs of patients?’  Because research often fails to...
    21 août 2018
  • Edinburgh skyline
    Sign-up for the Colloquium scheduleSign-up is now available for the full Colloquium schedule. Login to your Colloquium account, and sign-up for the sessions you want to attend.WorkshopsPlease note that most workshops have limited capacity, therefore participants are required to sign up for workshops. You can only sign up for one workshop per time...
    20 août 2018
  • Work begins to establish a new Cochrane Network across China
    Cochrane is pleased to announce plans to establish a new, open and collaborative Network within China. A group of interested stakeholders have been invited to a two-day strategic planning meeting to be held on 9-10 October in Beijing (hosted by the Peking University Health Science Center), to discuss the strategic direction and the establishment...
    15 août 2018

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