Three Cochrane Reviews focussing on the prevention of influenza in healthy adults, healthy children, and in the elderly are long-running reviews under the same senior author team. The protocol for the oldest review was first published 20 years ago.
Over the years the reviews have progressively accumulated evidence leading to ever greater…
Findings from syntheses of qualitative research can help provide evidence on people’s views of health and social care issues, about whether interventions are acceptable to the people affected by them, and about factors that are likely to influence implementation. Such syntheses are being used increasingly to inform decisions about health and…
While we’re almost at the end of January already, it is still well worth reflecting on Cochrane’s achievements in 2017 and what lies ahead for the organization. 2018 promises to be another exciting year of transformation and change as we increase still further our capacity to produce and disseminate high-quality evidence to impact health decision…
Cochrane is delighted to announce the establishment of a new Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group based in Oregon.
The Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group was originally registered in 1997 but was led by Frans and Anja Helmerhorst until their recent retirement in 2016. Since then the Group has been under the care of Cochrane Gynaecology and…
Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group in Auckland, New Zealand in collaboration with the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, has established a new Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility satellite. The satellite will start off with gathering, evaluating, and disseminating reviews on the effectiveness and safety of interventions…
For the past three years, Cochrane was a partner in the EU-funded project called Health in my Language (HimL), aiming to use advances in machine translation to make health content available in different languages. Here, Hayley Hassan, Translation Support Officer, presents the results of an evaluation task led by Cochrane as part of the project,…
Cochrane Iberoamérica has been working on a blogshots translation project with a Spanish evidence-based nutrition network. The partnership came about after a chance encounter at a Cochrane virtual meeting for translators! Here, Eduard Baladia, a dietician and member of RED-NuBE, and Andrea Cervera, translation manager at Cochrane Iberoamérica,…
The 25th annual Cochrane Colloquium, to be held in Edinburgh 16-18 September, has now been officially granted ‘Patients Included’ status, appearing on the official list of ‘Patients Included’ accredited conferences.
The Patients Included conference charter provides conference organisers with ‘a means of demonstrating that their events are…
This Blog presents commentary and personal opinion on topics of interest from a range of contributors to the work of Cochrane. Opinions posted on the Cochrane Blog are those of the individual contributors and do not reflect the official views or policies of Cochrane.
It was sobering to reread the following blog written in March 2016. On one…
Dr Helen Handoll is Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group, one of four Groups in the Acute and Emergency Care Network. She shares with us some of her personal views on the work of her Group this year, and outlines the opportunities and challenges facing Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma in 2018.
This Blog…
There are some keen Australians who’ve been asking for a Cochrane Classmate webinar. Well, we do aim to please, so here is one especially for you!
Brought to you by the Cochrane Crowd team, Cochrane Classmate is a trainers’ toolkit that lets you create exciting, interactive tasks to help your students learn about evidence production. It is easy…
Working together to speed up medical research
Got a burning passion for health? Ready to make a difference? We’ve got you covered.
Join Cochrane Crowd, our partner platforms Mark2Cure and Stall Catchers and our collective global volunteer network for the CitSciMed Blitz. Together we can speed up medical research and make a difference.…
We are looking for a new home for the Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group (CRCG). In addition to the detection, treatment and monitoring of colorectal cancer, the Group’s scope also currently covers other abdominal surgery-related topics, including hernia and appendicitis.
The CRCG portfolio of reviews includes 116 active reviews and 65 protocols.…
Cochrane is splitting Cochrane Anaesthesia, Critical and Emergency Care (ACE) into two new groups: Cochrane Anaesthesia and Cochrane Emergency and Critical Care. We are seeking two Co-ordinating Editors to lead these groups.
As of January 2018, two new groups will be created as a result of splitting the portfolio of the current ACE Group:…
Five good reasons to get involved with Cochrane Crowd, even if you’re already a health evidence aficionado - and how to help spread the word
You’ve probably heard of Cochrane Crowd, because we’ve certainly announced our presence! But in case you haven’t, we’re Cochrane’s new citizen science platform. Our global community of volunteers helps…
Cochrane was invited to participate in the V Translating Voices, Translating Regions Conference convened by Dr Christophe Declercq and Dr Federico M. Federici of UCL university and held at Europe House in London, 13 – 15 December.
The fifth international conference addressed issues around the complexity of multilingual communication in…
The Covidence platform continues to evolve, with recent product updates advancing the tool towards the vision of a world where answers to questions about health and other fields of human wellbeing are accurate, up to date, and accessible. The Covidence team is committed to engaging with the Cochrane community and continuing to make improvements…
Cochrane Bahrain has closed. Zbys Fedorowicz, Director of the Associate Centre, has decided to step down from his role and no replacement leadership or associated funding could be found. We thank Zbys and his team for all their work over many years.
If you have any questions, please email Veronica Bonfigli, Governance & Administrative Support…
The 2018 Plan & Budget for Cochrane’s central funds was approved by the Governing Board at its teleconference on 12th December and is now available on the Cochrane Community website. More information about the Strategy to 2020 Targets in 2018 will follow early in the new year, as will the minutes from the Board’s teleconference.
In…
Specifications: Availability for the equivalent of one half day per week (0.1 FTE)
Salary: Around £8,000 or equivalent per annum
Location: Unlimited
Application Closing Date: 20th Jan 2018
Context
As part of its Transformation Project, we are creating a new Editorial Board for the Cochrane Library. The Editorial Board will be responsible…
Cochrane’s Iberoamerican Network is delighted to announce the formation of a new Cochrane Centre to enhance health decision-making in Chile.
Cochrane Chile will promote evidence-informed health decision-making by supporting and training new Chilean authors of Cochrane Reviews, as well as working with clinicians, professional associations, policy-…
From little things, big things grow. Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s citizen science platform, now has 7500+ contributors who have notched over 1.5 million classifications. Here Anna Noel-Storr, Co-Lead of Cochrane Crowd, shares the story of Cochrane Crowd and how the platform may evolve in the future.
It often takes a combination of factors,…
The website for the 25th annual Cochrane Colloquium, taking place in Edinburgh from 16-18 September 2018, is now live.
Cochrane Colloquium Edinburgh will be a Patients Included event that is co-designed, co-produced and co-presented by healthcare consumers and where everyone’s input is valued equally.
Registration is scheduled to…
Following its meeting in Cape Town in September 2017, Cochrane’s Governing Board approved the Structure & Function of Cochrane Review Groups: Implementation of the Networks and Editorial Board Plan.
As part of this plan, every CRG will need to be re-accredited every five years in order to continue as a Cochrane Group. To support this process…
Dr. Sophie Hill, Co-ordinating Editor of the Consumers and Communication Group shares an overview of some of the changes in her Cochrane Group so that others in the Cochrane Community can learn from them.
In the Consumers and Communication Group we have made some changes lately you might like to hear about as we are finding they greatly…
The agenda and open access papers for the Cochrane Governing Board virtual meeting on 12 December 2017 are now available. Cochrane's governing body is the Board, comprising 13 members of whom some are elected by Cochrane’s contributors and some are external members appointed by the Board. The Board is responsible for overseeing…
Customer feedback on the functionality of the Cochrane Library is welcomed; see information on how to contact Wiley customer services. Wiley and Cochrane monitor the feedback, and from time to time, significant issues are raised. There are three issues at the moment that may particularly impact users, including the Cochrane community, and we are…
Request for comments on draft “Interim guidance on how to decide whether to incorporate clinical study reports and other regulatory documents into Cochrane Reviews” - *DEADLINE 22nd December 2017*
A Cochrane funded (Methods Innovation Fund) project has developed guidance on when to consider regulatory data for inclusion in Cochrane Reviews.…
Post: Associate Editor
Location: Flexible
Specifications: Full time/part-time. Permanent contract, subject to 6-month probationary period
Salary: Up to £45,000 dependent on skills and experience
Closing date for applications: 30th November 2017
Context
Cochrane is creating eight new Networks of Cochrane…
Cochrane is delighted to announce the full launch of all nine modules of its new online introductory training course on how to conduct a systematic review of interventions, available at interactivelearning.cochrane.org.
Cochrane authors and other producers of systematic reviews from across the world will be able to access self-directed learning…
On October 26, 2017, the independent and non-profit Cochrane Germany Foundation (Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung, CDS) was officially established with an office in Freiburg. The German Federal Ministry of Health will support the foundation with an amount of up to one Million Euro annually to ensure that the activities of Cochrane Germany can…
Open for submissions until 31 December 2017
Call for submissions
Cochrane is piloting a Fast-Track Service. This is a ‘journal-like’ process whereby high-quality, MECIR-compliant reviews that require no major revision, can be submitted directly into an accelerated editorial process. We aim for a turnaround of three months from submission to…
Cochrane Classmate, launched at the Global Evidence Summit in September, could change how evidence production is taught in classrooms around the world.
From the people that brought you Cochrane Crowd, we present Cochrane Classmate: a trainers’ toolkit that lets you create exciting, interactive tasks to help your students learn about evidence…
From 6-12 November, Evidence Aid is organising the Humanitarian Evidence Week 2017 (HEW2017) – one week of blogs, webinars, training, debates, and other initiatives to promote a more evidence-based approach to humanitarian aid. For the HEW2017, Evidence Aid has brought together more than 20 organisations to create a platform highlighting their…
The Brazilian translation team have been modifying English language Cochrane podcast scripts before translating them into Portuguese, in order to make them more suitable for their local audience. Patricia Logullo, translation editor at Cochrane Brazil, tells us more about the changes made to the scripts, and how listeners have responded.
How did…
Cochrane’s organizational Dashboard presents our achievements in key metrics.
We use it as an excellent tool to reflect on our accomplishments on a quarterly basis.
Here are just a few highlights from Q3 2017:
Cochrane South Africa successfully hosted the Global Evidence Summit (GES) in Cape Town in September with four other organizations.…
Cochrane is delighted to announce the official launch of Cochrane Argentina, a new Cochrane centre with a vision to increase the use of best evidence to inform healthcare decision making throughout Argentina.
Cochrane Argentina consists of three institutions working in collaboration: Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS, Buenos…
Dear Cochrane community colleagues,
I am writing to inform you that after 14 years working with Cochrane our Head of Learning and Support, Miranda Cumpston, has decided now is the time to pursue new life and career opportunities and sadly will be leaving us at the end of the year.
Miranda has led the Learning and Support Department…
Specifications: Full Time Salary: …
Specifications: Full Time Salary: …
Three Cochrane Reviews focussing on the prevention of influenza in healthy adults, healthy children, and in the elderly are long-running reviews under the same senior author team. The protocol for the oldest review was first published 20 years ago. Over the years the reviews have progressively accumulated evidence leading to ever greater…
Findings from syntheses of qualitative research can help provide evidence on people’s views of health and social care issues, about whether interventions are acceptable to the people affected by them, and about factors that are likely to influence implementation. Such syntheses are being used increasingly to inform decisions about health and…
While we’re almost at the end of January already, it is still well worth reflecting on Cochrane’s achievements in 2017 and what lies ahead for the organization. 2018 promises to be another exciting year of transformation and change as we increase still further our capacity to produce and disseminate high-quality evidence to impact health decision…
Cochrane is delighted to announce the establishment of a new Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group based in Oregon. The Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group was originally registered in 1997 but was led by Frans and Anja Helmerhorst until their recent retirement in 2016. Since then the Group has been under the care of Cochrane Gynaecology and…
Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group in Auckland, New Zealand in collaboration with the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, has established a new Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility satellite. The satellite will start off with gathering, evaluating, and disseminating reviews on the effectiveness and safety of interventions…
For the past three years, Cochrane was a partner in the EU-funded project called Health in my Language (HimL), aiming to use advances in machine translation to make health content available in different languages. Here, Hayley Hassan, Translation Support Officer, presents the results of an evaluation task led by Cochrane as part of the project,…
Cochrane Iberoamérica has been working on a blogshots translation project with a Spanish evidence-based nutrition network. The partnership came about after a chance encounter at a Cochrane virtual meeting for translators! Here, Eduard Baladia, a dietician and member of RED-NuBE, and Andrea Cervera, translation manager at Cochrane Iberoamérica,…
The 25th annual Cochrane Colloquium, to be held in Edinburgh 16-18 September, has now been officially granted ‘Patients Included’ status, appearing on the official list of ‘Patients Included’ accredited conferences. The Patients Included conference charter provides conference organisers with ‘a means of demonstrating that their events are…
This Blog presents commentary and personal opinion on topics of interest from a range of contributors to the work of Cochrane. Opinions posted on the Cochrane Blog are those of the individual contributors and do not reflect the official views or policies of Cochrane. It was sobering to reread the following blog written in March 2016. On one…
Dr Helen Handoll is Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group, one of four Groups in the Acute and Emergency Care Network. She shares with us some of her personal views on the work of her Group this year, and outlines the opportunities and challenges facing Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma in 2018. This Blog…
There are some keen Australians who’ve been asking for a Cochrane Classmate webinar. Well, we do aim to please, so here is one especially for you! Brought to you by the Cochrane Crowd team, Cochrane Classmate is a trainers’ toolkit that lets you create exciting, interactive tasks to help your students learn about evidence production. It is easy…
Working together to speed up medical research Got a burning passion for health? Ready to make a difference? We’ve got you covered. Join Cochrane Crowd, our partner platforms Mark2Cure and Stall Catchers and our collective global volunteer network for the CitSciMed Blitz. Together we can speed up medical research and make a difference.…
We are looking for a new home for the Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group (CRCG). In addition to the detection, treatment and monitoring of colorectal cancer, the Group’s scope also currently covers other abdominal surgery-related topics, including hernia and appendicitis. The CRCG portfolio of reviews includes 116 active reviews and 65 protocols.…
Cochrane is splitting Cochrane Anaesthesia, Critical and Emergency Care (ACE) into two new groups: Cochrane Anaesthesia and Cochrane Emergency and Critical Care. We are seeking two Co-ordinating Editors to lead these groups. As of January 2018, two new groups will be created as a result of splitting the portfolio of the current ACE Group:…
Five good reasons to get involved with Cochrane Crowd, even if you’re already a health evidence aficionado - and how to help spread the word You’ve probably heard of Cochrane Crowd, because we’ve certainly announced our presence! But in case you haven’t, we’re Cochrane’s new citizen science platform. Our global community of volunteers helps…
Cochrane was invited to participate in the V Translating Voices, Translating Regions Conference convened by Dr Christophe Declercq and Dr Federico M. Federici of UCL university and held at Europe House in London, 13 – 15 December. The fifth international conference addressed issues around the complexity of multilingual communication in…
The Covidence platform continues to evolve, with recent product updates advancing the tool towards the vision of a world where answers to questions about health and other fields of human wellbeing are accurate, up to date, and accessible. The Covidence team is committed to engaging with the Cochrane community and continuing to make improvements…
Cochrane Bahrain has closed. Zbys Fedorowicz, Director of the Associate Centre, has decided to step down from his role and no replacement leadership or associated funding could be found. We thank Zbys and his team for all their work over many years. If you have any questions, please email Veronica Bonfigli, Governance & Administrative Support…
The 2018 Plan & Budget for Cochrane’s central funds was approved by the Governing Board at its teleconference on 12th December and is now available on the Cochrane Community website. More information about the Strategy to 2020 Targets in 2018 will follow early in the new year, as will the minutes from the Board’s teleconference. In…
Specifications: Availability for the equivalent of one half day per week (0.1 FTE) Salary: Around £8,000 or equivalent per annum Location: Unlimited Application Closing Date: 20th Jan 2018 Context As part of its Transformation Project, we are creating a new Editorial Board for the Cochrane Library. The Editorial Board will be responsible…
Cochrane’s Iberoamerican Network is delighted to announce the formation of a new Cochrane Centre to enhance health decision-making in Chile. Cochrane Chile will promote evidence-informed health decision-making by supporting and training new Chilean authors of Cochrane Reviews, as well as working with clinicians, professional associations, policy-…
From little things, big things grow. Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s citizen science platform, now has 7500+ contributors who have notched over 1.5 million classifications. Here Anna Noel-Storr, Co-Lead of Cochrane Crowd, shares the story of Cochrane Crowd and how the platform may evolve in the future. It often takes a combination of factors,…
The website for the 25th annual Cochrane Colloquium, taking place in Edinburgh from 16-18 September 2018, is now live. Cochrane Colloquium Edinburgh will be a Patients Included event that is co-designed, co-produced and co-presented by healthcare consumers and where everyone’s input is valued equally. Registration is scheduled to…
Following its meeting in Cape Town in September 2017, Cochrane’s Governing Board approved the Structure & Function of Cochrane Review Groups: Implementation of the Networks and Editorial Board Plan. As part of this plan, every CRG will need to be re-accredited every five years in order to continue as a Cochrane Group. To support this process…
Dr. Sophie Hill, Co-ordinating Editor of the Consumers and Communication Group shares an overview of some of the changes in her Cochrane Group so that others in the Cochrane Community can learn from them. In the Consumers and Communication Group we have made some changes lately you might like to hear about as we are finding they greatly…
The agenda and open access papers for the Cochrane Governing Board virtual meeting on 12 December 2017 are now available. Cochrane's governing body is the Board, comprising 13 members of whom some are elected by Cochrane’s contributors and some are external members appointed by the Board. The Board is responsible for overseeing…
Customer feedback on the functionality of the Cochrane Library is welcomed; see information on how to contact Wiley customer services. Wiley and Cochrane monitor the feedback, and from time to time, significant issues are raised. There are three issues at the moment that may particularly impact users, including the Cochrane community, and we are…
Request for comments on draft “Interim guidance on how to decide whether to incorporate clinical study reports and other regulatory documents into Cochrane Reviews” - *DEADLINE 22nd December 2017* A Cochrane funded (Methods Innovation Fund) project has developed guidance on when to consider regulatory data for inclusion in Cochrane Reviews.…
Post: Associate Editor Location: Flexible Specifications: Full time/part-time. Permanent contract, subject to 6-month probationary period Salary: Up to £45,000 dependent on skills and experience Closing date for applications: 30th November 2017 Context Cochrane is creating eight new Networks of Cochrane…
Cochrane is delighted to announce the full launch of all nine modules of its new online introductory training course on how to conduct a systematic review of interventions, available at interactivelearning.cochrane.org. Cochrane authors and other producers of systematic reviews from across the world will be able to access self-directed learning…
On October 26, 2017, the independent and non-profit Cochrane Germany Foundation (Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung, CDS) was officially established with an office in Freiburg. The German Federal Ministry of Health will support the foundation with an amount of up to one Million Euro annually to ensure that the activities of Cochrane Germany can…
Open for submissions until 31 December 2017 Call for submissions Cochrane is piloting a Fast-Track Service. This is a ‘journal-like’ process whereby high-quality, MECIR-compliant reviews that require no major revision, can be submitted directly into an accelerated editorial process. We aim for a turnaround of three months from submission to…
Cochrane Classmate, launched at the Global Evidence Summit in September, could change how evidence production is taught in classrooms around the world. From the people that brought you Cochrane Crowd, we present Cochrane Classmate: a trainers’ toolkit that lets you create exciting, interactive tasks to help your students learn about evidence…
From 6-12 November, Evidence Aid is organising the Humanitarian Evidence Week 2017 (HEW2017) – one week of blogs, webinars, training, debates, and other initiatives to promote a more evidence-based approach to humanitarian aid. For the HEW2017, Evidence Aid has brought together more than 20 organisations to create a platform highlighting their…
The Brazilian translation team have been modifying English language Cochrane podcast scripts before translating them into Portuguese, in order to make them more suitable for their local audience. Patricia Logullo, translation editor at Cochrane Brazil, tells us more about the changes made to the scripts, and how listeners have responded. How did…
Cochrane’s organizational Dashboard presents our achievements in key metrics. We use it as an excellent tool to reflect on our accomplishments on a quarterly basis. Here are just a few highlights from Q3 2017: Cochrane South Africa successfully hosted the Global Evidence Summit (GES) in Cape Town in September with four other organizations.…
Cochrane is delighted to announce the official launch of Cochrane Argentina, a new Cochrane centre with a vision to increase the use of best evidence to inform healthcare decision making throughout Argentina. Cochrane Argentina consists of three institutions working in collaboration: Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS, Buenos…
Dear Cochrane community colleagues, I am writing to inform you that after 14 years working with Cochrane our Head of Learning and Support, Miranda Cumpston, has decided now is the time to pursue new life and career opportunities and sadly will be leaving us at the end of the year. Miranda has led the Learning and Support Department…