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  • Lara - Cochrane Author
    Cochrane is made up of 13,000 members and over 50,000 supporters who come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere.Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part...
    10 Dezembro 2018
  • Featured Review: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and long-acting inhalers
    This recently published Cochrane Review assessed which long-acting inhalers are the most effective and safest for people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.)Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) is usually caused by smoking or other airway irritants. COPD damages the lungs and causes airways to narrow which makes it...
    7 Dezembro 2018
  • Cochrane Airways recently published its biggest ever review.
    Cochrane Airways has published its biggest ever Cochrane Review. The meta-analysis review assesses which long-acting inhalers are the most effective and safest for people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and  supports a recently published NICE guideline.

    The logistics of getting such a large review done with...
    7 Dezembro 2018
  • Routine dental care: does the evidence give us something to smile about?
    In this Evidently Cochrane blog, Sarah Chapman looks at the Cochrane evidence for aspects of routine dental care. Something to smile about? Or are there big gaps…?“Are you afraid to laugh?” Goodall’s Dental Institute, 1912. Wellcome Collection.My grandmother used to tell the tale of when she was a schoolgirl, back in about 1920, and a school event...
    6 Dezembro 2018
  • Cochrane Colloquium Santiago website now live!
    Cochrane Colloquium, Santiago, Chile 22-25 October 2019 Cochrane Chile is delighted to be hosting the Colloquium next year. It will be a great opportunity to meet and network with the Cochrane community from Chile and Latin America, and to be surprised by the wide usage of Cochrane evidence in decision-making at all levels. The theme of the next...
    5 Dezembro 2018
  • A review of activities to help healthcare professionals share decisions about care with their patients
    It is widely recognised that more emphasis needs to be given to the role of the patient in making decisions about their health care. But what are the best ways to make this happen? Some of the answers are in the July 2018 update of a Cochrane Review on shared decision making and we asked the lead author, France Légaré from Université Laval in...
    4 Dezembro 2018
  • 10.1002/14651858.CD012776.pub2
    Review confirms that using pyrethroid-PBO treated nets to prevent malaria is more effective at killing mosquitoes in areas where there is a high level of resistance to pyrethroids.The distribution of nets treated with pyrethroid insecticides has been very effective in reducing malaria transmission during the past two decades in Africa. However,...
    4 Dezembro 2018
  • Cochrane Heart seeks Consumer Involvement
    Are you living with Heart Disease and interested in helping Cochrane Heart focus on research relevant to your condition? Cochrane Heart aims to prepare, maintain, and promote the access of systematic reviews of the effect of interventions for treating and preventing heart disease. Visit the Cochrane Heart website to find out more about their work...
    3 Dezembro 2018
  • Cochrane engages with partners to ensure its reviews are relevant and responsive to the needs of users, and help inform health decisions people need to make.
    Cochrane reviews should help inform health decision making. As the producers of reviews, we cannot do this on our own. Strategic partnerships, at the organizational, regional, national, network and group levels, are essential. These partnerships can be very diverse, from working with local media or a local community organization, to global and...
    3 Dezembro 2018
  • 'Updating guidance for preventing and treating cryptococcal disease: how evidence and decisions interface'.
    World AIDS Day takes place on the 1st December each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day.Cryptococcal meningitis causes an...
    1 Dezembro 2018
  • Cochrane’s Organizational Dashboard Q3 July – September 2018
    An enhanced Cochrane Library platform launch, huge increase in visits to Cochrane.org, and almost 1,300 contributors attend Cochrane’s Colloquium in Edinburgh, UK. We are proud to present key highlights of Cochrane’s performance during July – September 2018 as part of our latest organizational Dashboard.This important information consists of data...
    30 November 2018
  • If you haven’t voted yet in the current Governing Board elections, you’re still able to do so until 10 December
    Dear Cochrane Members,If you haven’t voted yet in the current Governing Board elections, you’re still able to do so until 10 December 2018 at 12:00 GMT. With 18 candidates standing for election this year, there’s a lot of information available for you to review before casting your votes. To support your choices, we’ve interviewed the candidates...
    28 November 2018
  • Podcast: Talking therapy for the management of mental health in low- and middle-income countries affected by mass human tragedy
    Evidence Aid, an organisation dedicated to improving the use of evidence in humanitarian crises, highlights information from Cochrane and other systematic reviews of particular relevance to those involved in humanitarian assistance and, in July 2018, these were added to by a report on psychological therapies for the treatment of mental disorders...
    27 November 2018
  • 2018 Colloquium Gala Dinner Raises £9,880 for Social Bite
    The Colloquium is Cochrane's annual flagship event, bringing people together from around the world to discuss research into important global health questions and to promote evidence-informed health care. This year, the Colloquium took place in Edinburgh, UK, in September and was hosted by Cochrane UK. Almost 1300 people from 57 countries attended...
    27 November 2018
  • All Cochrane members are entitled to vote in this election.
    Dear Cochrane Members,
     
    Voting is now open for the current Governing Board election.Visit elections.cochrane.org to view the candidates standing, read their Candidate Statements, and cast your votes.We’ll be sending a series of reminders before voting closes on 10 December 2018 at 12:00 GMT. Next week on the Cochrane Community website...
    23 November 2018
  • Engaging professionals, patients and policy makers with Cochrane reviews for greater impact
    Engaging professionals, patients and policy makers with Cochrane reviews for greater impact.Cochrane’s primary role is to produce and publish ‘high-quality, relevant, up-to-date systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence’ to support inform healthcare decisions. This is possible through the sheer dedication and hard work of the...
    22 November 2018
  • At Cochrane’s annual Colloquium in Edinburgh recently, we took the opportunity to ask some of those people who use Cochrane’s evidence what they thought about Knowledge Translation, why it was important to them, and they ways in which Cochrane could help make the most impact.
    In Cochrane we define ‘Knowledge Translation’ as the process of supporting the use of health evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews by those who need it to make health decisions.  We do this by involving evidence users in the production and dissemination of Cochrane evidence, sharing it in multiple and accessible formats, and working with...
    22 November 2018
  • Cochrane's 30 under 30: Andres Viteri Garcia
    Cochrane is made up of 13,000 members and over 50,000 supporters who come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere. Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part...
    20 November 2018
  • Senior author, Katrina Williams from the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne in Australia, tells us what they found in this podcast.
    There are more than 20 Cochrane Reviews of interventions that might be used in the care of children with autism spectrum disorder. In July 2018, these were added to with an assessment of the accuracy of tests for this condition. Senior author, Katrina Williams from the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne in Australia, tells us...
    19 November 2018
  • Recent joint Cochrane-Evidence Aid special collections include 'Prevention of acute malnutrition' and 'Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers'.
    Evidence Aid uses knowledge from systematic reviews to provide reliable, up-to-date evidence on interventions that might be considered in the context of natural disasters and other major healthcare emergencies. It was established after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, with input from several members of Cochrane, Cochrane groups, and...
    16 November 2018

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