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News articles

 

Project Transform

• Project Transform – Making high-quality evidence synthesis quicker and easier (5 September 2017) 

• Ensuring Cochrane Reviews remain trusted, and trustworthy, evidence in an era of fake news (1 August 2017)

•  Doing research into research: in conversation with Commonwealth Health Minister Medal winner Dr Julian Elliott (9 June 2017)

• Room with a view: a scenic perspective on Project Transform at the half-way point (24 August 2016)

• Project Transform: a short & snappy video explainer (8 August 2016)

• Living Systematic Reviews: towards real-time evidence for health-care decision-making (12 May 2016)

• Project Transform awarded Partnership Project grant (14 March 2016)

• Big data can improve health but first we need to build the foundations (11 November 2015)

 

Cochrane Crowd

• Give us a P, give us an I, give us a C, give us an O! The Cochrane Crowd PICO task is here! (20 June 2018)
   
• Learning by doing: Six ways to boost your knowledge with Cochrane Crowd (20 June 2018)
   
• Cochrane Crowd Crew: Hello Anna (20 June 2018)
   
• Cochrane Crowd celebrates 2nd birthday with 2 million classifications (5 June 2018)
   
• How we celebrated Cochrane Crowd’s 2nd birthday (5 June 2018)
   
• It’s time to focus on health and wellness! (14 May 2018)

• Announcing the prize winners of the 2018 CitSciMed Blitz (16 March 2018)

• Winners (and prizes) of CitSciMedBlitz (11 March 2018)

• CitSciMedBlitz Recap and Results (9 March 2018)

• CitSciMedBlitz - speed up medical research!  (26 February 2018)

• Citizen Scientists Invited to Speed up Medical Discovery (24 February 2018)

• CitSciMedBlitz - a triple citizen science challenge!  (23 February 2018)

• Calling all Citizen Scientists! Join the CitSciMed Blitz! (15 January 2018)

• Join the CitSciMed Blitz (15 January 2018)

• The inside scoop on Cochrane Crowd (13 December 2017)

• Cochrane Classmate – where your students want to learn (23 October 2017)

• Biomedical Citizen Science Chat (19 July 2017)

• Anna Noel-Storr from Cochrane Crowd - SoundCloud Podcast (18 July 2017)

• Cochrane Classmate: A tool for trainers (13 July 2017)

• Coming soon: crowdsource the screening for your review (5 July 2017)

• The MedLitBlitz: our week-long birthday party with more than 300 of our closest friends (24 May 2017)

•  How Cochrane is using Microsoft technology to improve the efficiency of systematic review production (12 May 2017)

•  Join the MedLit Blitz online May 9th-12th (5 May 2017)

•  Working together to create health evidence & transform biomedical discovery (28 April 2017)

• Join the MedLit Blitz: 24 hour screening challenge  (28 April 2017)

• Join the MedLitBlitz (27 April 2017)

• Democratizing AI to improve citizen health (13 March 2017)

•  Innovations in evidence synthesis: the invisible healthcare revolution (23 January 2017)

• Cochrane’s 2016 Citation Screening Challenge: Turning a lonely task into the most fun you can have in evidence based healthcare (13 January 2017)

• Cochrane Crowd [Global Health Trials] (23 December 2016)

• Join the Cochrane Crowd 48 hour Citation Screening Challenge! (6 Dec 2016)

• Help Cochrane Crowd reach one million classifications! (12 October 2016)

• Cochrane Crowd – Diagnostic Test Accuracy identification task is here! (23 September 2016)

• Cochrane Crowd - exciting times ahead! (27 July 2016)

• Making Cochrane Crowd's work go further (24 June 2016)

• Cochrane Crowd is here – become a Cochrane citizen scientist! (12 May 2016)

• Welcome Cochrane Crowd - the next phase of Cochrane Embase (12 May 2016)

TaskExchange

• Special August offer from TaskExchange: Your task seen by an even bigger team than you think! (11 August 2018)
   
• Giving thanks to the TaskExchange Top Twenty (19 July 2018)
   
• 80% of people find the help they need on TaskExchange! (12 July 2018)
   
• How to successfully help out on health evidence projects with TaskExchange (10 July 2018)
   
• 6 tips for finding help for your health evidence project on TaskExchange (9 July 2018)
   
• TaskExchange Team: Hello Tari (4 July 2018)
   
• TaskExchange helps evidence newcomers (29 March 2018)

• New TaskExchange features for evidence newcomers & translators (21 March 2018)

• TaskExchange helps you choose your helper with a new endorsement feature (23 August 2017)

• The Cochrane/G-I-N Partnership in 2017 (27 July 2017)

• Join TaskExchange if you’d like to help on a systematic review (26 May 2017 )

• TaskExchange Profile: Elizabeth Clearfield, regular task poster  (31 March 2017)

• Cochrane and Wikipedia: working together to improve access to health evidence (1 February 2017)

• Innovations in evidence synthesis: the invisible healthcare revolution  (23 January 2017)

• Full speed ahead for TaskExchange (25 August 2016)

• Broadening access to TaskExchange (27 July 2016)

• Drumroll: The TaskExchange excitement builds (24 June 2016)

• When Maya met TaskExchange (31 May 2016)

• Cochrane Reviews: Hard. Important. Fun? (28 April 2016)

• Take a sneak peek at Task Exchange (25 September 2015)

Living Systematic Reviews

 

• Living systematic review re-published in record time (14 February 2018)

• Living systematic review series published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (12 September 2017)

• First two living systematic reviews now live on Cochrane Library! (8 September 2017)
   
• LSRs: On the road with Annie and Julian ( 3 July 2017)

• Living systematic reviews are going live (27 June 2017)

 

Infographics

• Project Transform: Making review production quicker and easier (September 2017)

• Mid-project highlights (August 2016)

• Cochrane Crowd infographics

 

Publications

• Turner T, Steele E, Mavergames C, Elliott J. Facilitating Web-Based Collaboration in Evidence Synthesis (TaskExchange): Development and Analysis. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 [cited Dec 13]; 7(12):e188 http://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.9285.
   
• Elliott J, Turner T, Synnot A. What role for consumers in the new health evidence ecosystem? Health Voices, Issue 22, April 2018. 
   
• Byron C Wallace, Anna Noel-Storr, Iain J Marshall, Aaron M Cohen, Neil R Smalheiser, James Thomas; Identifying reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) via a hybrid machine learning and crowdsourcing approach, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 24, Issue 6, 1 November 2017, Pages 1165–1168. 
  https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx053
   
• Singh G, Marshall IJ, Thomas J, Shawe-Taylor J, Wallace BC. A Neural Candidate-Selector Architecture for Automatic Structured Clinical Text Annotation. InProceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2017 Nov 6 (pp. 1519-1528). 
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3132847.3132989
   
• Elliott JH, Synnot A, Turner T, Simmonds M, Akl EA, McDonald S, Salanti G, Meerpohl J, MacLehose H, Hilton J, Tovey D. Living systematic review: 1. Introduction—the why, what, when, and how. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Nov 1;91:23-30. 
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.08.010
   
• Thomas J, Noel-Storr A, Marshall I, Wallace B, McDonald S, Mavergames C, Glasziou P, Shemilt I, Synnot A, Turner T, Elliott J. Living systematic reviews: 2. Combining human and machine effort. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Nov 1;91:31-7. 
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.08.011
   
• Simmonds M, Salanti G, McKenzie J, Elliott J, Agoritsas T, Hilton J, Perron C, Akl E, Hodder R, Pestridge C, Albrecht L. Living systematic reviews: 3. Statistical methods for updating meta-analyses. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Nov 1;91:38-46. 
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.08.008
   
• Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, Elliott J, Kahale LA, Schunemann HJ, Living Systematic Review N. Living systematic reviews: 4. Living guideline recommendations. J Clin Epidemiol 2017 Nov 1;91:47-53.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.08.009
   
• Turner T, Green S, Tovey D, McDonald S, Soares-Weiser K, Pestridge C, Elliott J. Producing Cochrane systematic reviews—a qualitative study of current approaches and opportunities for innovation and improvement. Systematic reviews. 2017 Dec;6(1):147. 
  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0542-3
   
• Mavergames C, Elliott J. Living Systematic Reviews: towards real-time evidence for healthcare decision making. BMJ Clinical Evidence Blog. 2016. 

• Turner T, Elliott J for the Project Transform team. Production Models for Cochrane Reviews: How are we producing reviews? What works? What could we improve? London (UK): Cochrane. 2016.

• Elliott JH, Grimshaw J, Altman R, Bero L, Goodman SN, Henry D, Macleod M, Tovey D, Tugwell P, White H, Sim I. Informatics: Make sense of health data. Nature. 2015 Nov 4; 527(7576): 31-32.

Webinars

If you would like us to hold a webinar on a specific aspect of Project Transform, get in touch with us at transform@cochrane.org

• Cochrane Classmate webinar - 17 May 2018
   
• G-I-N NA Webinar: "Task Exchange: Find A Project Helper" (27 February 2018)
• Join the CitSciMed Blitz: Work with us to speed up medical research (24 February 2018)

• Cochrane Classmate: A tool for trainers (13 July 2017)

• Cochrane Classmate webinar(7 November 2017)

• How you can contribute to health evidence and biomedical discovery with Cochrane Crowd & Mark2Cure(8 May 2017)

• Putting the Power of Cochrane to work for you: Getting the most out of Cochrane Crowd and TaskExchange(21 September 2016)

Videos

• What is Project Transform?

• How you can contribute to health evidence with Cochrane Crowd

• Cochrane Classmate in a nutshell

• Cochrane's TaskExchange and G-I-N

• Subscribe to the Cochrane Crowd YouTube channel