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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 九月 2018
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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 八月 2018
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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 八月 2018
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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 八月 2018
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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 八月 2018
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Free access to all included Cochrane Reviews Acute malnutrition threatened the lives of 50.5 million children under five years globally (7.5%) in 2017. About 16 million children with acute malnutrition are estimated to have severe acute malnutrition, the most extreme and visible form of undernutrition. Two new Cochrane Library Special Collections...
14 八月 2018
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Cochrane Crowd is an online citizen science platform that enables anyone with an interest in health to contribute to health evidence. Our volunteers make it easier for health researchers to find the latest, high-quality evidence on what treatments work and don’t work. This means health practitioners can more easily access current evidence to...
10 八月 2018
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Episode 12 -Alexandra Barratt
'It's not science or instinct...it's evidence and personal preferences. That's really, to me, the heart of shared decision making.’
This week’s guest has led something of a double life, using both medicine and the media to explore and promote the critical role of evidence in healthcare. Now based at...
9 八月 2018
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Editor in Chief of the Cochrane Library, David Tovey, describes the journey of updating the Cochrane Library, which spans being a journal and a knowledge resource, and includes current and archive content, multi-lingual text, and a varied collection of databases.It all began in April 2012 at Cochrane’s business meeting in Paris: a ‘strategic...
8 八月 2018
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Cochrane is pleased to announce that the Cochrane Library, which provides high-quality, independently produced evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, has been redesigned and enhanced to improve user experience and functionality.
Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people...
8 八月 2018
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Find out more about what we have planned for the 2018 Colloquium in EdinburghCochrane UK is delighted to be hosting the 25th Cochrane Colloquium, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Scotland, from 16th to 18th September 2018.We have given the Colloquium the title ‘Cochrane for all – better evidence for better health decisions’. ...
8 八月 2018
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Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care (PaPaS) group addresses the gap in knowledge on chronic pain in childhood and helps push solutions forward.On July 12th at the Wellcome Trust in London, UK, world-leading experts came together to look at evidence, policy and practice in the area of childhood pain.Clinicians, researchers, funders...
2 八月 2018
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Cochrane is pleased to announce plans to establish a new, open and collaborative Network within the US.An internal review of Cochrane’s structures carried out in 2016 highlighted that a single Center approach for a country the size of the US has many limitations, and that a Network of multiple groups based across the country is a better model to...
2 八月 2018