Cochrane Poland and Cochrane Collaboration – history, structure, and future

[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 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 systematic reviews.

The Cochrane Collaboration and bicycle helmets.

Effective interventions for care of health need to be based on scientific evidence. To this end, the Cochrane Collaboration insists that its reviews should be based on reliable data, normally obtained by randomised controlled trial. To constitute evidence, data should also support a hypothesis in accord with scientific laws and knowledge. From these considerations, an appraisal is made of the c...

Evidence-based medicine and the Cochrane Collaboration.

Providing evidence-based care to patients involves turning a clinical problem into an answerable question, systematically searching for the best evidence relevant to the question, critically appraising that evidence, and, finally, using the evidence as the basis for clinical decisions to solve the problem. While the overload of medical information today presents a demanding challenge to physici...