Cochrane Collaboration

The International Cochrane Collaboration.

Introduction If we are asked how effective mefloquine is in preventing malaria, our response might tell our questioner a lot about how we learn about the world around us, how we assimilate that knowledge and experience, and how it influences our subsequent decision making and action. Thirty years ago, Archie Cochrane drew attention to the haphazard way in which the research evidence about the e...

[The Cochrane collaboration and the Cochrane library in urology].

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, non-profit making organisation which aims to help people make well-informed health care decisions. The main objective is to prepare, update, promote and facilitate access to systematic reviews on health care interventions. The main product is The Cochrane Library, a quarterly electronic publication. The principles and structure of the Cochrane Col...

The Cochrane collaboration in the Third World.

T he publ icat ion of a paper by the Cochrane Injuries Group Albumin Reviewers [BMJ 1998; 317(7153):235-240] gives us a good example of the importance of the Cochrane Collaboration for medical practice and rcscarch. In spite 01" have being used for more than 50 years, alburnin infusion in criiical patients has not yet been properly studieel. This syste matic review, initially publisheel in the ...

The Cochrane Collaboration and systematic reviews.

The Cochrane Collaboration: the Oral Health Group.

T o help people make well-informed decisions about health care, it is important that systematic reviews of current best evidence are available. This is of particular importance in dentistry, where many dentists work in relative isolation, with no hope of critically evaluating the thousands of journal articles published each year, nor of verifying the claims of those advocating novel interventio...