Following consultation with current Trials Search Coordinators (TSCs), the Cochrane Steering Group (CSG) has approved the TSCs’ recommendation that their title be changed to ‘Information Specialist’ and the title of Assistant Trials Search Coordinator be changed to ‘Assistant Information Specialist’.
As the job title of TSC is not used outside…
The Cochrane Justice Health Field and the Cochrane Policy College have ceased operations effective 4 March 2016. An ongoing lack of resource capacity meant that the team were unable to continue to provide a coordinating base and we thank them for all of their hard work. Please direct all enquiries relevant to the Field’s work to the Central…
It’s time to write up those research projects and tell the world about all the exciting things you’ve been doing. The call for abstracts and workshops for this year’s Cochrane Colloquium in Seoul is now open. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics relating to systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, evidence-based health care, and the work…
2015 Dashboard is keeping us on track for 2016
Cochrane's Annual Dashboard presents some key metrics on our organizational performance over the previous calendar year. It includes data on Strategy to 2020 target achievements, and key metrics around the four Strategy to 2020 Goals. It’s an excellent tool to use to reflect on what we accomplished…
A scoping review published in BMC Medicine has identified a range of potential competencies to enable scientific editors of biomedical journals to do their jobs effectively and support high quality in the publication of research. James Galipeau and colleagues at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada, in part funded by Cochrane,…
Cochrane Tobacco Addiction is celebrating their 20-year anniversary. In addition to taking this great opportunity to publicize their work, they are also using it to plan how they move forward.
Whether your interest in prevention and treatment of tobacco addiction is personal or professional, Cochrane Tobacco Addiction wants to hear from you!
The…
This Cochrane Blog post highlights the contributions of Professor Joan Webster; a prolific author, intrepid adventurer, and much loved mentor to many.
Cross-posted, with permission, from Cochrane Australia.
Conduct a trusty Google search on Professor Joan Webster and there among the myriad of journal articles, research papers, and academic…
Time to celebrate - the new Cochrane Community website is here!
We are delighted to welcome you to the new and improved Cochrane Community website - the final phase of rebranding Cochrane online. It's been just over a year since we launched cochrane.org with our new organizational logo and branding; following that, 130+ Cochrane Groups went…
Cochrane’s Mid-Year Meeting provides an opportunity for face-to-face meetings of the collaboration’s Steering Group and other groups and contributors responsible for helping to formulate and implement Cochrane policy.
Cochrane senior staff will lead a strategic session on 5 April, focusing on Cochrane's governance reform and knowledge translation…
For more than 20 years, Cochrane has produced systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy. We are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based healthcare resources.
This video is the story of how a team of Cochrane researchers in Canada are helping to change practice in the treatment of a…
The Cochrane Vaccines Field has ceased operations effective 1 November 2015. An ongoing lack of resource capacity meant that the team were unable to continue to provide a coordinating base and we thank them for all of their hard work.
Please direct all enquiries relevant to the Field’s work to the Central Executive team.
Guest blog by Hywel Williams
A new Cochrane Library Special Collection brings together recent Cochrane Reviews on allergy. In this guest blog, Hywel Williams, Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Skin Group, looks in more detail at some of the reviews relating to skin disorders.
There is plenty of interesting information for…
Searching for diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies can be frustrating and time-consuming, as those of us now engaged in producing systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy can attest! EMBASE is the first of the major electronic medical literature databases to introduce an indexing term specifically for DTA studies. The lack of such terms…
Following consultation with current Trials Search Coordinators (TSCs), the Cochrane Steering Group (CSG) has approved the TSCs’ recommendation that their title be changed to ‘Information Specialist’ and the title of Assistant Trials Search Coordinator be changed to ‘Assistant Information Specialist’. As the job title of TSC is not used outside…
The Cochrane Justice Health Field and the Cochrane Policy College have ceased operations effective 4 March 2016. An ongoing lack of resource capacity meant that the team were unable to continue to provide a coordinating base and we thank them for all of their hard work. Please direct all enquiries relevant to the Field’s work to the Central…
It’s time to write up those research projects and tell the world about all the exciting things you’ve been doing. The call for abstracts and workshops for this year’s Cochrane Colloquium in Seoul is now open. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics relating to systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, evidence-based health care, and the work…
2015 Dashboard is keeping us on track for 2016 Cochrane's Annual Dashboard presents some key metrics on our organizational performance over the previous calendar year. It includes data on Strategy to 2020 target achievements, and key metrics around the four Strategy to 2020 Goals. It’s an excellent tool to use to reflect on what we accomplished…
A scoping review published in BMC Medicine has identified a range of potential competencies to enable scientific editors of biomedical journals to do their jobs effectively and support high quality in the publication of research. James Galipeau and colleagues at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada, in part funded by Cochrane,…
Cochrane Tobacco Addiction is celebrating their 20-year anniversary. In addition to taking this great opportunity to publicize their work, they are also using it to plan how they move forward. Whether your interest in prevention and treatment of tobacco addiction is personal or professional, Cochrane Tobacco Addiction wants to hear from you! The…
This Cochrane Blog post highlights the contributions of Professor Joan Webster; a prolific author, intrepid adventurer, and much loved mentor to many. Cross-posted, with permission, from Cochrane Australia. Conduct a trusty Google search on Professor Joan Webster and there among the myriad of journal articles, research papers, and academic…
Time to celebrate - the new Cochrane Community website is here! We are delighted to welcome you to the new and improved Cochrane Community website - the final phase of rebranding Cochrane online. It's been just over a year since we launched cochrane.org with our new organizational logo and branding; following that, 130+ Cochrane Groups went…
Cochrane’s Mid-Year Meeting provides an opportunity for face-to-face meetings of the collaboration’s Steering Group and other groups and contributors responsible for helping to formulate and implement Cochrane policy. Cochrane senior staff will lead a strategic session on 5 April, focusing on Cochrane's governance reform and knowledge translation…
For more than 20 years, Cochrane has produced systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy. We are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based healthcare resources. This video is the story of how a team of Cochrane researchers in Canada are helping to change practice in the treatment of a…