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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleCochrane @ PubMed Health: another audience for reviews
Hilda Bastian is a long-time contributor to The Cochrane Collaboration and currently works at the US National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National...
View ArticleCapturing equity in systematic reviews
Tracey Koehlmoos is programme head for health and family planning systems at ICDDR,B and adjunct professor at the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is also...
View ArticleNotes from the Canadian Review Update Course – Halifax, June 2012
The Nova Scotia Cochrane Resource Centre (NSCRC), in partnership with the Canadian Cochrane Centre, held a five-day Update Completion Course in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the week of 18-22 June 2012....
View ArticleBeautiful minds working together to save lives
Ashraf Fawzy Nabhan is professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, with an appointment at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. A Cochrane contributor since 2006, he also serves as...
View ArticleThe African Cochrane Indaba: a Zimbabwean woman's experience
Sarah Manyame is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and lectures at the University of Zimbabwe. She is an author with the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group. Here, in the second in a series of...
View ArticleIs there value in making author contact when determining risk of bias in a...
Helen Atherton is a Research Fellow in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, and a Cochrane author with the Consumers and Communication Review Group. She is a...
View ArticleWhat is a good topic for a Cochrane Review? What is a “real uncertainty”?
Mona Nasser is a Clinical Lecturer in Evidence Based Dentistry with Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry and affiliated researcher with the Cognition Institute (Plymouth...
View ArticleThe Trial Blazers study: crowdsourcing and Cochrane
Anna Noel-Storr joined Cochrane in February 2008 as the Trials Search Co-ordinator (TSC) for the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group. She still holds this position, but is also seconded...
View ArticleHow may I help you? The future of Cochrane Training
Miranda Cumpston is Cochrane’s Senior Training Co-ordinator, and is based at the Australasian Cochrane Centre in Melbourne. Her background is in health policy and public health, and she has been...
View ArticleRevisions to the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy: what do contributors...
Lisa Bero, one of the Co-Chairs of the Cochrane Steering Group, and Cindy Farquhar, Managing Editor of the Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group and Co-Director of the New Zealand Cochrane Branch,...
View ArticleLet’s hear it: a chat about training
Miranda Cumpston is Cochrane’s Senior Training Co-ordinator, and is based at the Australasian Cochrane Centre in Melbourne. Her background is in health policy and public health, and she has been...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 2014
John Hilton works as an Editor with the Cochrane Editorial Unit (CEU), based in London. He has been with the CEU since November 2010. Previously, John worked as digital content editor and manager at...
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